The State of car love.

This post originally appeared on Orphan Road.

Our state created a great (if unoriginal) web site where you can suggest ways of fixing our state budget.  A while back I proposed tapping into the gas tax as a temporary measure, until we get back on our budgetary feet.  This idea did not do well (currently at -18 votes).  Looking through the list of other loser ideas for our state, we see:

Get rid of state highway system  -55  (Save money, by giving them to the counties/cities where they are located for them to maintain.)

Road tax -56 (Every vehicle should be issued a transponder and road tax collected for the mileage driven.)

For comparison: Sales tax on food is only at -50.  Close the entire state government is at -41.  Tax renters like homeowners is -30.  Auditing the Dept. of Ecology is at +68.  Taxing casinos is at +750 (can we even legally do that?).

Washingtonians love their cars.  In fact, people here would actually rather tax food than their roads.  Good luck even surviving in this state, transit.