"New" Hampshire Gas Tax Increase Today At 10am LOB 212 - Granite Grok

“New” Hampshire Gas Tax Increase Today At 10am LOB 212

NH Gas tax payerRumor has it that the Jaspercrats will be proposing an amendment to HB 357 today when the bill is exec’d by Finance at 10am (LOB212).  The amendment will be to raise the state gas tax to end years of “one-time” fixes to DOT funding.

This new tax could be proposed by either a Democrat or a Republican (any Jaspercrat will do.)  My sources indicate that leadership is backing the hike without backing it, and finance chair Neal Kurk has said he’d not propose a gas tax hike but he would support it if someone else did.

So the pieces are all in place for ‘republican’ backed hike to the NH gas tax.

They (insert name of progressive ass-hat here) will make a moral argument for dealing with the legislature’s systemic failure to address critical funding needs at DOT, a problem that must be addressed now, and can only begin to be solved through higher taxation.

The bill rumored to be amended, however,has nothing to do with the budget, or funding of DOT.

HB 357 is “AN ACT relative to notice of change of name or address on a driver’s license and on the registration of a vehicle.”   It changes the time you have to update your name and address on your NH license or registration from 10 days to 30 days.

So yeah, how about we just fund DOT by attaching a gas tax to that.  Better yet, perhaps everyone should raise bloody hell, call and email the finance committee about the tax hike, and make them deny it.

 

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