Should Delaware increase its gas tax by 10 cents a gallon?

19 Comments

  • Howard - 8 years ago

    Only raise it if the funds are earmarked for roads and not into the general fund, AND the State takes a serious look at eliminating State wasteful spending. I dont like taxes anymore than anyone else but a gas tax would spread the pain over everyone including all the tourists that come thru every year.

  • Jim - 8 years ago

    This is ridiculous! More money! More money! More money! Why worry about spending more on roads & bridges when the current state government WASTES the money already allotted for this! We spend tons of money on wasteful things like new huge interstate type steel pole supports for traffic lights on small intersections (example: Rt. 4 & Stanton Road) that were just fine with the older type supports, 3 milliion dollars spent on bicycle paths that someone ripped the state off for because it's obvious someone just painted areas off the sides of already existing roadways and the bikes did just fine all the way up till now without them! Cobblestone stamped cement decorations everywhere! WHAT???? We need cobblestone decor? Why? And to top it off our state tax on gasoline is HIGHER than the fed tax! NO! Enough is enough!

  • Mike - 8 years ago

    It can't stay .23 cents forever. Been the same fee for 20 years. Cars are more fuel efficient as well which really means that the revenues have been cut as it relates to the gas tax specifically. Meanwhile everything else goes up. Its an equation for failure to hold the same.

  • steve kavanagh - 8 years ago

    Look how all the politicians are trying to get their hands in the "candy bowl" millions of dollars of bank settlement money. What ever happen to the lawsuit over the Indian River bridge mess that cost us millions of extra dollars and the lawsuit over the 495 bridge? You don't need to raise minimum for people to have a livable wage - stop raising taxes that takes money out of their pockets.

  • Boo - 8 years ago

    I just reviewed my first paycheck of this year and realized I am short about $40... and then I heard it was because my state income tax went up. I barely make enough to cover daycare, my student loans and my mortgage - I am certainly not part of the 1 percent. Kind of glad now that I got laid off with so many others. No sense in working hard if when I think I'm going to get a raise, I get penalized instead with a tax! If the state had budgeted appropriately infrastructure costs - THIS WOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE. AND I AM TALKING ABOUT THE PROJECTS NEAR THE CHRISTIANA MALL & RIVERFRONT THAT ARE COSTING BILLIONS....all the potholes and other issues could have been easily fixed if those in charge were focused on citizen wants and not business wants............

  • Mary Ballance - 8 years ago

    it is bad enough taxes in Middletown have risen so high, finally we are getting a break on gas prices and the stupid governor wants to raise the tax again? Stop all of the building in Middletown, stop building schools, homes, shopping centers and leave the gas tax alone....

  • pearl Hubbard - 8 years ago

    I used live in Harrisburg pa and traveled here nearly every weekend.during that time I've witnessed the price of toll go up year after year thank God that the gas prices were affordable because I don't think l would have spent the much needed time I needed to spend with family and friends.let's not raise the taxes on gas which will hut the Commuter instead write it on the prices of cigarettes

  • patrick - 8 years ago

    Close our bordersf to the new jersey ,Pennsylvania,New York implants that insist on raising taxes because it cheap to live in Delaware.go back home we don't need you!!!!

  • Bill - 8 years ago

    An increase in Gas Tax is an obvious win for the state as a whole. The infrastructure gets to be upgraded/maintained, companies will want to relocate here because traffic won't suck, engineers at local consultants and DOTs will want to live in our state.... There are no drawbacks in my mind. We pay random cell phone taxes, random cable TV taxes and no one makes a stink, but somehow for this 3 bucks a month extra in gas tax, we're facing Armageddon. 36 bucks a year for most people.

  • Gerald Miller - 8 years ago

    Raise the tax only if you promise to fix the streets in Wilmington.

  • Janet Fender - 8 years ago

    Delaware faces a $780 million funding shortfall over the next 6 years for planned DELDOT projects, and with gas prices currently low, and expected to stay low for the foreseeable future, the discussion should be started on what a gas tax increase would look like for Delaware. As long as the funds from the gas tax are used only for road projects, I'm all for a tax increase.
    With our state economy still fragile, our state budget is going to be difficult to manage without an infusion of money from somewhere.
    Our roads are in sad shape. A gas tax increase is fair in that those who use our roads the most will pay proportionally.

  • Naomi Baker - 8 years ago

    Have we forgotten the $1 increase to Rte #1 tolls on the weekend to make a rediculous $3 toll that was implemented when the 10 cents per gallon gas tax failed before.

  • Ed - 8 years ago

    For sure there is corruption in both the public and private sector. Elimination of waste is something that should be pursued, but we need highways and bridges fixed now, not at the conclusion of a lengthy investigation. When fuel prices were hovering at the $4/gallon range people had every right to complain, but we should take advantage of the more than $2/gallon price break that people have enjoyed and start implementing solutions that have tangible results.

  • Bob - 8 years ago

    Yes to move off fossil fuels and fund the needed infrastructure improvements. If you want to pay less buy a high mpg car.

  • Michael - 8 years ago

    NO. Gas prices are now low, but what happens when it's high again? It hurts the average person who needs to pay a higher gas price to get back and forth to work. What the gas tax was supposed to be used for was completed now there is a call for more money. Let's follow the MONEY!

  • Bob - 8 years ago

    Gas tax should be indexed off inflation, GDP, or some other measure so it doesn't need a vote for being increased in the future.

    The goal of the gas tax was to pay for the road infrastructure by the users 9f that infrastructure. It hasn't been able to-do that for some time now, taking money from other sources. Especially at the federal level where it has been flat for about two decades.

  • Steve - 8 years ago

    I'm surprised that Markell isn't involved. He'd take it from JUST STATE EMPLOYEES for a year. I agree with the previous comment. Fix the waste and get your money there. Have the unemployed people getting government funds work for the state to free up money. What happen to the shovel ready jobs and money Obama promised for infrastructure? Didn't that fix anything? Just another democratic administration trying to feed the machine. Over taxed already!

  • Robert - 8 years ago

    Gas tax not raised in 21 years. Let's hear how you would feel if not one raise received over the same time frame. Nation has become one where the norm is now the antithesis of how Kennedy challenged all of us to act.

  • Michael Dalene - 8 years ago

    Instead of paying more for something that was already paid for and the funds stolen, bring those to justice that stole the money and then take it from their personal bank accounts...

    They bankrupt funding for key projects to finance pet-projects and then turn to the average unintelligent idiots that comprise the majority asking for more because they know those people are too stupid to see through their games--- which they are, VERY stupid !

    When schools need money, the first things cut are Key educational programs... never is a panty-waste of a administrator tossed to the street. Then the weak minded, pathetic masses cry and cave-in !

    The ONLY way to stop their begging and stealing is to "cut them off" completely!

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