Finally, a Georgia Republican I can get behind

[Billy Ocean]

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Over in the 3rd Congressional District’s Republican primary, state Sen. Mike Crane (R-Newnan) made some provocative comments about the necessity of shooting police officers.

Crane has done some admirable things as a state senator. He’s one of the few lawmakers with the courage to stand up to the governor and the legislative leadership when they’re trying to ram bills through to passage in the dying hours of a session.

Crane once held up a roll of yellow crime scene tape while making a speech to show his distaste for a proposed Senate rules change. When the Senate was voting on the transportation tax increase last year, Crane asked defiantly, “Isn’t it true that this is an unqualified midnight run on Georgia taxpayers?"

Even so, Crane raised a few eyebrows when he said this about police officers who use no-knock warrants to conduct a raid on a private residence: “If you come to my house, kick down my door, if I have an opportunity I will shoot you dead. And every one of you should do the same.”

When asked about the controversy by a local reporter, Crane said, "I’ll never apologize for defending my home or anybody else’s right to defend their home.”

Capitol Impact: A Felon and Other Controversial Candidates By Tom Crawford

 

[Gritzblitz 2.0]

If more Republicans were like this, maybe they wouldn't be getting their ***** kicked on the reg in national elections. 

[Dago 3.0]

was expecting a pic of a scantily clad woman

[Mr. Hoopah!]

He's a republican, there's probably a 40/60 percent chance he would get behind you too. 

[kicker]

Meh.  The transportation bill needed to happen.  It sucks that it went down the way it did, but roads are so sorely needed in Georgia and funding was nonexistent.  

[kicker]

9 hours ago, WhenFalconsWin said:

There is always funding, it is the ways things are allocated that is the problem.  

Prior to the bill, Georgia had one of the lowest gas taxes in the nation.  

 

They need to eliminate the gas tax and link it to tags based in vehicle weight and miles driven per year.  

[lostone]

9 minutes ago, kicker said:

Prior to the bill, Georgia had one of the lowest gas taxes in the nation.  

 

They need to eliminate the gas tax and link it to tags based in vehicle weight and miles driven per year.  

How do you prove how many miles they drove on your road?  A tax is a tax.  Gas is okay, unless you are trying to get more out of truckers.  

[kicker]

1 hour ago, lostone said:

How do you prove how many miles they drove on your road?  A tax is a tax.  Gas is okay, unless you are trying to get more out of truckers.  

lol.  And people that fill up in one county on their way to the next don't pay for "your" road either.  

Gas taxes don't work.  If the object is to incentivize fuel efficiency, then you do so at the expense of road funding.  The tax's foremost focus is road funding.

Electric vehicles use the road and don't pay for them.  Further, Tzhe higher the tax, the more likely people are to fill up in adjacent states as they travel, so again you have people using your road and not paying for it.  Most of the taxes also aren't indexed for inflation, so they are getting eroded on both sides.  They need another mechanism that more accurately captures the demographic of people using the roads.  As it is, weight of the vehicle and miles driven are two direct factors for how much wear and tear a car puts on a road.  

 

[lostone]

2 hours ago, kicker said:

lol.  And people that fill up in one county on their way to the next don't pay for "your" road either.  

Gas taxes don't work.  If the object is to incentivize fuel efficiency, then you do so at the expense of road funding.  The tax's foremost focus is road funding.

Electric vehicles use the road and don't pay for them.  Further, Tzhe higher the tax, the more likely people are to fill up in adjacent states as they travel, so again you have people using your road and not paying for it.  Most of the taxes also aren't indexed for inflation, so they are getting eroded on both sides.  They need another mechanism that more accurately captures the demographic of people using the roads.  As it is, weight of the vehicle and miles driven are two direct factors for how much wear and tear a car puts on a road.  

 

I can see that.  So what will they charge us?  Rather than it be baked in, it will be charged up front as a $200 bill or something 

[Porkins]

8 hours ago, lostone said:

I can see that.  So what will they charge us?  Rather than it be baked in, it will be charged up front as a $200 bill or something 

Electric vehicles are taxed and significantly more so than gas fueled vehicles now. They added a $200 EV tax last year and also took away (entirely I think; not positive) the $5000 tax credit for purchasing an EV. I hear legislators want to bring it back though. Here's an article published just before the $200 annual tax was put into effect.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2015/04/georgia_passes_200_electric_car_fee_why_are_states_punishing_people_for.html

edit to add one more link:

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1097641_insult-to-injury-ga-kills-electric-car-incentive-adds-last-minute-luxury-car-tax-break

"Meanwhile, Georgia also added a $200 registration fee for battery-electric vehicles.

That's higher than the $165 in state gasoline taxes (at $0.275 per gallon) that a Georgia driver in a 25-mpg vehicle would pay for driving 15,000 miles per year."

Edited May 7, 2016 by Porkins

[kicker]

23 hours ago, lostone said:

How do you prove how many miles they drove on your road?  A tax is a tax.  Gas is okay, unless you are trying to get more out of truckers.  

why do you need to?  You tax at registration time.  

[lostone]

Looks like the do already

[kicker]

On May 7, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Porkins said:

Electric vehicles are taxed and significantly more so than gas fueled vehicles now. They added a $200 EV tax last year and also took away (entirely I think; not positive) the $5000 tax credit for purchasing an EV. I hear legislators want to bring it back though. Here's an article published just before the $200 annual tax was put into effect.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2015/04/georgia_passes_200_electric_car_fee_why_are_states_punishing_people_for.html

edit to add one more link:

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1097641_insult-to-injury-ga-kills-electric-car-incentive-adds-last-minute-luxury-car-tax-break

"Meanwhile, Georgia also added a $200 registration fee for battery-electric vehicles.

That's higher than the $165 in state gasoline taxes (at $0.275 per gallon) that a Georgia driver in a 25-mpg vehicle would pay for driving 15,000 miles per year."

This was part of the legislation I said needed to pass.  

[kicker]

10 hours ago, lostone said:

Looks like the do already

This was part of the legislation passed last year.  All of my comments were discussing the situation prior to the bill being signed.  Sorry if I wasn't clear.  

 

That said, we'll be addressing this again in another 10 years.