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Questionmarktarius posted...

Bio1590 posted...

For what, a carbon tax?

It's a user fee. The idea is have a service paid for by the people who actually use the service.
That's how the roads were supposed to be funded, before the Highway Trust Fund ended up raided just like the Social Security Trust Fund, and pretty much every other pile of public money with "trust fund" in the name.

Funny this was mentioned. Since in several states before Illinois finally passed such a constitutional amendment, there were passed constitutional amendments in other states over state transportation funding called a transportation lockbox funding amendment. Basically, it established a trust fund that couldn't be raided for any other state government purposes, except strictly for road funding.

At that time looking back when it was on the ballot, I only voted against it since I wasn't sure how well this would cover non-driving forms of transportation that are still important(i.e. bicycling infrastructure, trains, buses, etc). I think since that has passed, this amendment has worked very well. And looking back if this vote did occur over again, I would've voted in favor of it.
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