To help fund roads, WA lawmakers eye fee on delivery of online purchases

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A fee tacked onto the delivery of many retail and online purchases could generate millions of dollars a year for maintaining city and county roads in Washington.

State lawmakers now must decide if it’s an option worth pursuing as they, and local government leaders, wrestle with increasing costs of transportation upkeep and decreasing collections from the gas tax — the primary source of money for road work.

“Clearly our cities, our counties and our state have transportation challenges with too many potholes and too much traffic,” said Sen. Marko Liias, D-Edmonds, following Tuesday’s meeting of the Joint Transportation Committee, a bipartisan and bicameral panel that he chairs.

“This is one of a number of things we’re looking at to come up with the resources to make the needed investments,” said Liias, who is also chair of the Senate Transportation Committee.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/06/19/to-help-fund-roads-wa-lawmakers-eye-fee-on-delivery-of-online-purchases/

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1. Tax the CEO's excess wealth

Stop nickle-and-diming the general population when it is the wealthy elite who use a massively disproportionate amount of "the commons" to generate their obscene wealth!

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2. Exactly

Boeing is always threatening to leave the state if they don't get tax relief and infrastructure paid for by taxpayers. They should be put in jail for extortion and good idea to tax the CEOs. Because we have no income tax here we are home to a lot of billionaires.

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3. Great plan to harm non-driving seniors and others surviving on Social Security.