93.9 The Eagle – The News and Talk of Columbia, MO
(AP) — A conservative advocacy group’s Missouri chapter is seeking to put what’s expected to be the state’s first gas tax hike in years to a public vote.
The secretary of state said Monday that Americans for Prosperity-Missouri’s director filed the referendum petition.
Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature last week approved a gradual increase in the state’s 17 cents per gallon gas tax to 29.5 cents over five years. Republican Gov. Mike Parson is expected to sign the bill into law.
Missouri voters have repeatedly voted down increases to the gas tax.
Has anybody read this thing? It will be to your advantage to know what all they are trying to foist off on us. Even more interesting, I’m having trouble finding just exactly what this money is to be used for, and lo and behold, tucked away in the middle of the “bill” is the creation of the Electric Vehicle Task Force. Members will serve without compensation. There will be the following representations (designees are permissible): 1. IRS of MO 2. Chair of the public service commission. 3. Director of MODOT. 4. Member of the Senate commission with jurisdiction over transportation. 5.Member of the house committee with jurisdiction over transportation. 7. same as 4 8. One from the trucking and heavy transport industry. 9. One representative of electric vehicle manufacturers. 10. One regular motor representative. 11. Convenience Store/gasoline service rep. 12. A manufacturer of electric vehicles. 13. A rep for electric utilities. This is the worst spaghetti soup of babble I have seen since Obamacare. And I still haven’t found what they need that money for. It is a senseless garble of vague restrictions and more annually-reported bureaucratic nightmares for vehicle sales, any petrol-based vehicles are in for it.