With Momentum Building for Gas Tax Increase, Cedar Falls Lawmakers Split
The Iowa gas tax, which pays for road maintenance across the state, has not been raised in 22 years.
Momentum in Iowa appears to be shifting to an increase in the state’s fuel tax, which pays to maintain Iowa’s roads. No one denies those roads need work. University Avenue, part of a renovation partnership between the city governments of Cedar Falls and Waterloo, the Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments and the Iowa Department of Transportation, is aging and full of potholes. The DOT is also looking at plans to increase the safety of Highway 218 north of Cedar Falls, near Janesville, where dangerous intersections caused 127 total crashes between 2006 and 2010, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported. But those projects, and others across the state, cost money, lots of money, which in large part comes from the gas tax. Raising …
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Kate
8:36 pm on Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tax the folks who haul the heaviest loads that break down our roads: trucking companies, farmers who hire 18-wheelers to haul their grain, huge SUV's---we did that years ago and we should do it again. more ›