NC gas tax reaches maximum level

Gas Tax, first let me say I am not a guinius, just a country boy from WV, but I find from time to time, that my simple ways sets me on a pedistal,in a crowd of simpleton peers. The gas tax is high, and the money is wasted,we have all laughted at the construction workers on the highway, and the city workers in my case in sanford.and I have often pondered of a state with so much funds they put a guard rail down both sides of the median like they did from sanford thru tramway,I have seen it all over the state though, and then they have to pay people to actually weedeat around the posts and mow the center with riding mowers, what a hoot. it is a waste, BUT...... There will be no reform of the system, dont fool yourself. the problem has gotten so big, that it is feeding on itself, lol like the US deficit. the gas tax in NC,is pennies,I have been broke my whole life, yet I personally laugh,at how comical people are. I am the kind of person who listens,and watches,I love to see petty human nature take its course and here are some of the things I see. Usually the ones complaining in the line about the price of gas, or the taxes on gas, pay for about 20 dollars worth, or ten gallons, with thier pack of ciggs,a case of beer, two lottery tickets, and 3-20 oz bottles of soda. now this is the funny part is they just paid 4.80 in taxes on the gas which will last some days (not me, I use 10 gallons a day or more) and are complaining but never see the 79 cents tax on the smokes.(I smoke too) 1.20 on the case of beer,and the 20 oz bottles, 3 bottles at 1.29= 3.87 plus tax, and they could have gotten a 2 litter for 99 cents, and the lottery ticket people are the funniest.Case and point is the taxes we pay for gas is nothing compared to the money we waste on everything else all day, every day. the solution is simple, dont drive unless you are on the way to/from making money, stop and get what you need on your way home, dont make secondary trips, if you are out just cruising, then you are burning way more money on fuel than taxes, lol.The roads need upkeep. and only a fool doesnt write off atleast a portion of thier gas, or milage, so it all comes out a wash. or better at the 2008 fed income tax rate of 50.5 cents a mile for buisness miles, you only need an average of 1 mile per gallon, doing buissness, to wipe it out. for 15 dollars in most places you could have your own small buissness, and all the perks with it. So I think people should stop complaining about pennies, and educate themselves, so they can save dollars. and for those really genious people out there that blame a president for the problems, you guys make my life worth living,but here is some down to earth info for you,he is a patsy.set forth to take the blame from congress,and for you it is working,News flash, he dont set behind a desk making taxes and laws. sorry, you never will see congress if you stand pointing at any president. the price of oil is not even dictated by the oil companies people wake up, who do you think buys the oil from opec( and if you dont know who they are you really need to do some GOOGLING) WE THE PEOPLE make the oil prices, its a supply and demand world, and a traded comoddity, wall street decides oil prices,not the government, or the oil companies,the oil companies buy the oil at the traded prices. and you could get into that barrel of monkeys too on wall street, we live in a speculated realm.

NC is paying 48.6 cents a gallon in gas tax. One of the highest in the country. I personaly fill up about once a week at 20 gallons a week. For the year that equeals about $500 a year. Then include my federal and state tax I paid on that $500 and it's now $750 a year in additional taxes. Take my property taxes for just my car and my home, then the sales tax. You realize we pay taxes on taxes and if you add up what you actually pay in taxes it close to 50% of what you make. If your a middle class citizen. Maybe if we stop buying parks and building new state, city, county office buildings these taxes wouldn't be necessary. (Like the one Governor Easley - decided to purchase a couple weeks ago / Grandfather Mountain)We really needed that? So now the tax payers of NC own 35 state parks. Wich are seldom ever used. I say we sale 1/2 of them and that along would pay the majority of our state debt and save us millions in tax money for the up-keep on these. Sell them all we have over 1,000 city and state maintained parks in this state. Talk about pork-barrel spending. I could go on and on about the cuts this state could make not to mention the country. Bottom line - who’s going to bale the United States out when we have to file Bankruptcy,. Our government gets a life time retirement about the only ones still in this country that still get a nice check after retirement. (Even if there in jail for ripping the tax payers off or any other crime) Paid by our deficit, not to mention they get there pay-raise every year twice a year. Don't you think we should make this vote, not the ones getting the pay-raise? Why do we have so many people running this country you realize if we cut this in 1/2 you would hardly know it and the savings alone would be billions! Not to include what we could get accomplished. No doubt that our government needs an over-haul. But who’s is going to cut their own jobs -them? So when Obama and McCain say they’re going to clean up Congress, - they can't. How do we plan to pay back this 11 trillion and growing debt we are in? Think that might have some part to do with Wall Street? Time for a change but until this country stands up for ITSELF and does something it's not going to happen!!! My opinion we need a private party non-profit to clean up our government. And last comment - ARE YOU JUST NOT SICK OF THE LIES FROM ALL OUR POLITICIANS! They say what you want to here to get there vote! This will be the first time in my life I haven't voted. And if the entire country done this - think we might see a change? We should elect our government officials first by nominating them for the position. O.K I'm done and I feel better! COPY AND PASTE – SEND TO EVERYONE! Next election in 2012 - We the people can make a change! And stop depending on our screwed up politicians!

these law makers need to be put in jail. the gas is too high. its either gas or food and now both are going up more and the goveror wants more money again. it a joke! the whole goverment is a joke. i blame bush. the poor gets poorer and bush and co are playing in pools of pure gold. there spending our money rebuilding a irac and careing more for them then there own people. people here need help first.

just goes to show how much Governor WEasly and his flunkies in our state government think of it's people. Gas goes up these fools slpa it to us. Just like they make our state a place were illegal invaders love to come to. Enough is enough vote all these fools out come election.

So what are they doing with the Highway use tax that everyone pays when they purchase a vehicle that average out from $400 to $1000 per vehicle purchased. The tax that you pay on a vehicle when you purchase it is 6% with a max of $1500. This is not sales tax, it is Highway use tax used to repair the roads. Now, in case you did not know, SC pays 6% but only a max of $300 and their highways and roads are totally nicer and kept up better than any here in NC. So....what are they doing with the money that we pay out every year for tags, and not to mention all the money that is taken in on vehicle sales?

I wonder if anyone in Raleigh (or our local governments) have ever considered cutting back on the high end landscaping that graces our highways. Heck, I-40 interchanges look better than my own yard. I'd much rather see our roads fixed than look at the flowers while driving up I-40. You may as well forget the tax break, it ain't gonna happen, Democrat or Republician Governor.

Lets raise it another 5% so we can have more daisies and flowers landscaping the interstates. Give me a break, there is alot of spending that could be cut out.

Every time I go to the pumps I feel the need to call a cop because it's nothing but economic rape with these prices. God someone in the government needs to help us out in the wind.

This will be a easy problem for me, I'll drive to SC border and get my fuel.. NC loses..

The reason our gas tax is so high has nothing to do with South Carolina building better roads with less tax, or NC spending so much more than we have to. True, in government, you can always find wasteful spending, but one of the reasons for the high gas tax here is that NC has more state roads to take care of than ANY OTHER STATE (besides Texas). I'm sure at first read you would think that is an incorrect statistic, but it's all in how the state sets up roads and who's responsibility it is to take care of those roads. In most states, there are city, county, and state roads, all of which are maintained by those respective jurisdictions. HOWEVER, in NC, we only have city and state roads; therefore, ALL roads not within city limits are the responsibility of the state to maintain (not the county, as would be the case in many other states). As much as we hate to pay so much for a gas tax, the real reason lies in how the state delegates money. Trust me.. we have it much better overall than those other states where counties are responsible for taking care of county roads. Those counties have much higher property taxes than we do here to maintain those local roads, however, yes, those places do get a small break at the gas pump. However you slice it, the government is going to get their money somehow, whether it is a higher gas tax or higher property taxes... I'll take the higher gas tax. A republican governor wouldn't be able to do anything differently in terms of cutting the gas tax unless money was taken from somewhere else, or the entire state reconfigured the road maintenance to make counties responsible and not the state. I can't figure out how comparing us to SC or a republican governor has anything to do with the fact that NC has a completely different method of assigning road maintenance and property tax structure.

South Carolina has much lower gas tax, yet they are building and have build some very impressive highways recently. I am speaking about the ones that run behind Myrtle Beach to Conway. Why are they building better highways, and we have a higher gas tax? Because in the past our gas tax has been spent on things like building an NAACP computer lab. Its time to streamline the bureaucracy and elect a republican governor.

They why do we have such crappy roads in North Carolina? Because the government uses the road tax as their cookie jar to grab out of when ever they want something. Fix the roads or drop the tax.

HERE is a novel idea...STOP SPENDING SO MUCH DANG MONEY...flippin idiots don't know how to stay within their means and the means of the state is the problem. I am SO HAPPY SLEASLY is GONE for good after this election!