Lege Trend. Trucking Industry Backs Oil and Gas Opposition to a Ballot Proposition.

A Colorado ballot propsition to curb drilling near neighborhoods see trucking industry support oil and gas in opposition.

The opposition arguments from trucking industry:

Lege TREND. Disguising a Gas Tax Bill for Transportation in a School Finance Deal. Here's How:

Where: Utah

The legislative compromise: The Utah Legislature and Supports of Increasing School Funding made a deal that would:

put a 10cent gas tax question to the voters and then require legislative implementation after the vote
the Legislature in exchange:
- froze the state basic property tax rate for 5 years
- created a new tax rate for the weighted pupil unit thereby creating a $292 million increase in education funding.
- if the gas tax is approved, funds would be divded like this:
  - 70…

Voters in San Francisco in November 2019 can vote wehter to approve a 3,25% tax onn ride share. Thanks to AB 1184 ( 2018 | CA) .

The Heartland Institute offers reasons to oppose a ride sahre tax:

San Francisco cost of living is already high enough
Termites. “Taxes such as this one are like termites: They eat at the foundation of the community,”
Taxes drivers. Drivers may get stuck paying the tax
self-sabotaging regulation

Heartland Institute | SAN FRANCISCO VOTERS TO CONSIDER TAXING UBER

not feasible financially
not feasible politically
its a costly failure, it’d be cheaper if California bought Southwest Airlines and flew Californians around
High Speed Rail project is a net greenhouse gas producer
The questions outweigh the answers, we need tangible gains from the project
let’s ask voters, again

5 High Speed Rail opposition rallies are planned in Texas concerning the “ill-conceived Texas Land Grab Project”:

6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16 — Truman Kimbro Center, 111 West Trinity Street in Madisonville

•5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23 —Jewett Civic Center, 111 Robinson Rd. in Jewett

•6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8 — Grimes County Expo Center, 5220 FM 3455 in Navasota

•6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 — House Estate, 15743 House Road in Hockley

•6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19 — Ellis County Women’s Building,…

A person who:

Opposition rational:

how Texas Central agents treat people
critically flawed Federal Railroad Administration’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement
bad for our natural resources
bad for communitites
no need for the project
no financial viability

Members of the Coalition:

3 Recommendations:

Continue to increase fuel-economy standards;
extend and improve the electric-vehicle tax credit;
invest more from the federal government in finding and deploying innovative technologies.