10/18/10

Readers prefer gas-tax hike over more borrowing

NJBIZ Poll Results
Monday, October 18, 2010 12:00 AM
By NJBIZ Staff

Summer Olstad
Nearly half of responders to the most recent reader poll support raising the gas tax as a means to repair the long-suffering Transportation Trust Fund, with less than 3 percent supporting legislative borrowing as the remedy for the fund that’s used to pay for road and rail projects.
“Five cents more on all the fuel purchased can add up to a lot of finished roads,” wrote reader Kathy Janton. “But it has to be for funding roads that we drive on, tunnels we drive through, bridges we drive over — not higher salaries, more benefits or pensions.”

Reader Meg Fitch, meanwhile, said the TTF crisis “should have been handled years ago. Our elected officials need to stop thinking about themselves and their next elections. They need to think about what’s right.”

Reader Howard Maltz took cast a critical eye on Trenton. “Our legislators have got to stop raiding the Transportation Department’s piggy bank to plug the holes in the budget,” he wrote. “It has gone on for too long, and now the roadways and the infrastructure is paying the price.

But there was plenty of vitriol for any tax hike. Stephanie Shaffery, of 20 Twenty Graphics, wrote, “Trenton needs to stop spending money, and come up with a plan that allocates proper funding to worthwhile programs and spending. If transportation funding is considered worthwhile, then fund it without charging the taxpayers another dime.”

NEXT WEEK: Will the trans-Hudson tunnel be built?

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