The TX highway system at one time was one of the best anywhere. Now some TX roads are no better than Third World back roads I've driven on.

should be doubled or triplied.

Tax the rich.
Don't balance the budget on the backs of the poor.

it's not 'balancing the budget', it's saving the planet. At least our part of it. The poor, the working class, and the middle class should be helped in other ways. But anything that slows carbon consumption needs to be considered.

As if regressive taxes were the only way to reduce green house gas releases.

Huh?

I doubt your even thinking about this, but the poor live on this world also. There's a lot more of us, the poor, then there is of them, the rich. So any thing that's under taken to try to address climate change will have to include us. And it's far too late to use just one approach. Every thing's on the table.

There's a ton of things we should be doing for all of us, but cheap gas is not one of them.

Because "everything" includes policies that are a whole lot worse than just conservative tax policies.

If "everything" really is on the table, why are the worst, regressive, tax schemes your Raison D'etre?

which you seen completely unconcerned about. But it's all good as long as you have fun, right?

through regressive taxes.

I'm less concerned with having fun and more concerned with the significant hardship that you wish to impose of hundreds of millions of people.

you're not going to enjoy what's coming.

If anything a change to progressive taxation would cost me more money.

I could walk everywhere I need to go. It wouldn't negatively impact me if the gas tax was a billion dollars a gallon.

Armed with a can of washable spray paint, an artist in Greater Manchester, England, has embarked on a worthy crusade: to rid the region of potholes… by drawing penises on them.

The anonymous artist, who goes by the name “Wanksy,” told the Manchester Evening News that he decided to draw attention to the “appalling” pothole-ridden streets after some of his cyclist friends were badly injured on the roads.

“I wanted to attract attention to the pothole and make it memorable. Nothing seemed to do this better than a giant comedy phallus,” he said. “It’s also speedy, I don’t want to be in the road for a long time. It seems to have become my signature. I just want to make people smile and draw attention to the problem.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/artist-penis-potholes-wanksy_n_7149810.html

A five cent tax would make 6.725 Billion. How far would that go each year? At 18.4 cents per gallon, we're already paying almost 25 billion a year in taxes that don't appear to be going anywhere. Nothing is getting fixed.

http://www.americanfuels.net/2014/03/2013-gasoline-consumption.html

I'd be willing to pay 5 to 10 cents if it spurred a complete overhaul of road, bridges, and infrastructure improvements.

This was to add to the road fund. Not much complaining heard about it. It comes at a time when the revenue raising traffic cameras were being shut down in some cities.

them, it makes sense. And Toll Roads. Yep. Make the people who drive on them, pay for them. Imagine that!

Seems to work pretty well in other countries.

Oh wait, we can't raise taxes, that makes politicians unpopular and they might make a voter mad...

We're on a road trip and have been appalled at the quality of many of our highways. Massachusetts' roads were particularly bad, and that's supposedly a high tax state. More tolls than I remember in previous years too.

All the shaking and hitting potholes at high speed probably does a lot of damage to vehicles as well. I wonder if the cost of fixing all that damage exceeds the amount of money required to fix our damn roads properly in the first place. I suspect it does. Lowering taxes often causes new or higher expenses that more than make up for the tax savings in my experience.

I'm reluctant to get a front-end alignment on my car because they haven't fixed the winter potholes yet.