From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!rjs
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: gas tax
Article-I.D.: floyd.882
Posted: Wed Nov 24 09:43:16 1982
Received: Thu Nov 25 12:50:24 1982

I don't think that the proposed 5 cents/gallon federal gas tax increase
should be allowed to pass.  Instead, the individual states should
increase their tax if a need for highway repair is seen.  The reason is
that the federal government has shown that it is perfectly willing to
use money given to it for the purpose of highway repair and other
transportation related costs to force the states to pass laws that it
(the fed. govt.) otherwise has no authority to pass.  We should not
continue to let the government take our money away so that it can
force us to pass laws that the majority of people in a particular state
would otherwise never allow to pass.  While there might be some justification
for this where minority rights to employment or similar topics are concerned,
I can see no justification for the fed. getting into the traffic law
business.

	Robert Snyder
	floyd!rjs