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franpipeman · Post by **franpipeman** » Tue. Aug. 02, 2022 8:57 am

Much of the fuel tax funds the State police payroll

and the turnpike is intentionally indebted by the legislature to fund others roads , because the legislator do not want to fund essential services properly. So the southern roadway , the turnpike is taxed and the northern roads 78 ad 81 are not taxed

add that to the mix of unfairness.

Post by **Richard S.** » Tue. Aug. 02, 2022 9:59 am

franpipeman wrote: ↑
Tue. Aug. 02, 2022 8:57 am
the turnpike is taxed and the northern roads 78 ad 81 are not taxed

The Turnpike is owned by PA and they are able to charge whatever they want since there is no federal funding involved. they could sell it if they wanted too. They can't do that with the other Interstates. It was the rejection by the feds to toll I-80 that resulted in the crazy increases on the Turnpike.

https://www.paturnpike.com/about-us/investor-rela ... ct-44-plan

After three years of studies, the federal government denied the state’s application. The PTC, however, still must continue to make annual payments to PennDOT. Act 44 was amended by Act 89 of 2013. With the new law, the PTC's annual payments to PennDOT remained at $450 million through June 2022. All $450 million has been annually allocated to support transit and other non‐highway programs. Starting in fiscal year 2023, the Commission's Act 44 payments drop to $50 million per year until 2057. This reduction in its annual Act 44 obligation will allow the PTC to increase its capital reinvestment into its infrastructure and will lead to a long term reduction in the Commission's total amount of debt outstanding.

It appears the highway robbery will be ending, at least as far as funding going to PennDot. Someone is going to have to figure out how to fill that $450 million dollar hole in their budget.

BigBarney · Post by **BigBarney** » Tue. Aug. 02, 2022 10:06 am

All Interstates should be TOLL Roads to be able to do the maintenance and updates

as needed. With modern toll machines that would be easy to do.

BigBarney

Post by **Richard S.** » Tue. Aug. 02, 2022 3:09 pm

The fuel tax in a sense is already a toll, it's not fairly distributed and in the case of electric vehicles not distributed at all.

Eliminate the fuel tax and add a per mile tax based on the weight of the vehicle. I cannot think of way to do this more fairly, any other suggestions?