| Show WHERE DOES THE GAS TAX GO no group berrs bears so heavy a burden of class taxation aado ag do motorists in 1933 for exam example refineries produced gasoline valued at thi the federal government taxed this gas the states taxed it or a total of f As a result the gasoline tax actually amounts to almost per cent of the value of the product this situation as the san antonio express recently said woud be bad enough if all gas tax money were spent for building and maintaining roads the motorist would be at least getting something for his money but a constanty constantly rising number of states are coming to regard the gas tx tax as a nin exhaustible source of revenue for all governmental purposes they divert gas tax funds to pay for schools for unemployment relief for harbor main cenance te nance for oyster propagation and for a long list of similar undertakings none of nf which directly benefit the avera average e motorist it seems perfectly obvious that such undertakings should be paid for out of the general taxes provided by all the taxpayers and not by added taxes on n that group of citizens which owns end and operates motor cars it is an encouraging sign that aggressive opposition is developing in nil all parts of the country against the he diversion of gas tax money from use on roads road rad work was the reason for the tax being inaugurated in the first place and motorists accepted it without objection but now every motorist has a thoroughly justified complaint against his gas taxi tax money being used for projects unrelated to road development and every motorist enthusiastically join in the movement mv ement to bring gas tax diversion diversi onto Xo a halt ha t |
