MacIver News Minute: The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Transportation Budget

Here’s the good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Joint Finance Committee’s Transportation budget. -No gas tax, no indexing - or taxation without representation. That’s very good. -Transportation bonding at the lowest level in 18 years, that’s good. But at nearly $500 million, it’s a big-spending transportation budget, and it relies heavily on fee hikes. Now, the ugly. The JFC’s transpo budget includes very little in the way of reforms for a Department that has squandered billions of taxpayer dollars.