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February 10th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Actually just this kind of “leak” has been used by pols since there have been pols and newspapers.
You “leak” a 27 cent a gallon tax hike proposal as a trial balloon and see what happens. If it does not spark outrage great, if it does then lawmakers are more apt to agree to a lower number thinking they have saved money and can tell the public yay for us.
The flaw in the plan as I see it is the chips they are talking about for inspection stickers that will allow the state to charge vehicles on a per mile basis means out of state vehicles get a free ride.
The assumption that out of state vehicles will gas up in Massachusetts is unrealistic one since gasoline will be cheaper in their home states.
Also factor in the number of Massachusetts residents that will suddenly “live” in NH for the purposes of auto registration.
I did see today that Patrick is still thinking about a toll plaza for Route 93 in the Methuen area.
So I believe this “leak” was intentional to gauge reaction.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Of course we’re going to hear outrage at such a huge increase in the gas tax, but what really scared me if the lack of outrage that the Governor wants to put chips on our cars to track us. C’mon, even Bush wouldn’t go that far!
February 11th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Well, as I mentioned in my previous post on this issue, I am against the tracking thing, and so are a lot of other liberals I’ve talked to, so I wouldn’t say “no outrage” at least not from politically active people.
Even if think the current administration would use that sort of information carefully and get his whole entire slate of employees in every dept to do the same, I still don’t know who the next guy will be, or if any individuals wouldn’t ever abuse it, and the whole idea is just rather creepy.
February 11th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I vote for total elimination of the tolls, along with every other vestige of the Turnpike Authority. Think of the savings from eliminating the whole toll-collection process that shifting this fee into a gas tax would allow.
That’s just one of the duplicative government functions that would be eliminated.
The trick is to raise the gas tax as part of a package, like Patrick’s, with toll elimination and boosting transportation spending. And rolling the Turnpike Authority into the DOT.