<DIV>Ken,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What parts of Idaho are growing now? I think the building development is pretty much at a stand still. All over the country building projects are stuck in suspended animation. I do think you are on to something though, taxing all the wealthy Californians coming into the state and putting greater demands on our structure that it can handle. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best Regards,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan<BR><BR><B><I>Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1@verizon.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Thursday 28 February 2008 13:07, Craine Kit wrote:<BR>> I agree with the Governor that we need to raise money to fix the <BR>> roads. However, I think it should be done by charging for potential <BR>> damage. That would be a combination of charging licence fees based on <BR>> the weight of the vehicle, a
surcharge on the purchase of studded <BR>> tires, and a small increase in the gas tax.<BR><SNIP space server archive waste to needed not posts old multiple><BR><BR>Yes, the State of Idaho needs more capital investment funds for <BR>transportation infrastructure expansion, improvement, and repair. Missing <BR>so far in the discussion of characteristics of funding sources acceptable <BR>for such purposes is a better matching of the payments for the funding of <BR>the capital and the timeline for the usage of the infrastructure built with <BR>that capital. Thus far suggestions have been of a pay-as-you-incur-expense <BR>nature for raising capital to build long-term infrastructure assets.<BR><BR>A more satisfactory matching of the timelines would come from capital raised <BR>from expenditures for longer-term investments and then transferred as <BR>capital for infrastructure investments. In other words, tax items at their <BR>purchase that likely will be used for a longer
time, perhaps the same <BR>longer time that the infrastructure will be used. This helps to reduce the <BR>short-term regressive characteristics of using expense taxation to pay for <BR>capital construction.<BR><BR>What to tax? Well, how about building materials that will become parts of <BR>homes and business structures that will presumably stand for extended <BR>periods of time near the newer and repaired roads that service the land on <BR>which those buildings sit?<BR><BR>This policy will have the salutary effect of asking some of Idaho's newer <BR>residents, who presumably want to become long-term residents, to help pay <BR>for roads and bridges and goat trail widening to which existing longer-term <BR>residents have already enjoyed the pleasure of contributing. It will also <BR>focus tax receipts from those areas of the state that are growing more <BR>rapidly, and thus are more likely to need such infrastructure
investments.<BR><BR><BR>Ken<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net <BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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