Another Call to Action - SB 1110

[RX8er]

Please call your State Representative and tell them to vote NO on SB 1110. 1110 allows property tax & sales tax to build toll roads. I thought when we drive on toll roads, we pay for them anyways. Also, local municipalities are can use local taxes to pay for state roads. This is something that the state already collects taxes for.

SB 1110 (Nichols) - Expands the definition of & use of a transportation project from strictly roads to include rail, transit, even parking lots, ferries, and airports with Transportation Reinvestment Zones (TRZ) without accountability to the voters/taxpayers. TRZs pledge LOCAL property taxes (appraisal increases) and/or sales tax revenues in the zone to pay for STATE highway projects, including toll projects (which is a double tax to use tax money to build it, but charge Texans a toll to drive on it). If a toll project needs TAX money to subsidize it, it means it's NOT toll viable and cannot be paid for with the tolls alone. So a 'YES' vote is a deliberate vote in favor of DOUBLE TAXATION and it moves toll road policy away from 'user' pays to ALL taxpayers paying for the road, yet Texans can be charged AGAIN to drive on it!