This is one tax idea I can really get behind. Seems the County Council adopted a resolution supporting an increase in the state gasoline tax. The added revenues would be used to fund mass transit projects in our traffic clogged region.
I don't know about you, but during the last spike in gasoline prices earlier this year, I noticed a significant drop in the amount of rush hour traffic. Presumably people got jiggy with the whole mass transit idea once their wallets and pocket books were adversely impacted by higher gasoline costs. I spent a fair amount of time living in Europe where gas costs are much, much higher, and mass transit usage is also much, much higher. Believe me, the comparatively low prices we pay for gas only encourage more commuters on to the roads each day. An increase in the gasoline tax might just help encourage a lot more folks to find their way onto buses and trains, and off the roads.
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If gas taxes discourage car ridership, then sales taxes discourage commerce, income taxes discourage labor and property taxes discourage home ownership. I could live with a gas tax increase if one of the foregoing were cut by the same amount. In Rockville and Annapolis, however, new taxes are wanted only because those governing can rule only with rapidly increasing revenues.
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