Denver Post Promotes More Taxes

Dog bites man.  Today the Denver Post has not one, but two editorials promoting higher taxes.

The Colorado Contractors association is promoting FASTER in the mistaken belief that they will benefit from the higher fees.  The history of Democrat sponsored tax and fee increases is one of bait and switch.  Nothing in FASTER prevents collecting the new fees and directing them away from road construction.

Ed (Tax and Spend) Quillen doesn't much like FASTER.  He would prefer a 50 cent a gallon gas tax that would, he thinks, raise $1 Billion rather than the paltry $250 million that FASTER will raise.  

Like most liberals who are disconnected from reality.  He pretends in one paragraph that gasoline will never again sell for more than $4/gallon:

Why not increase the gasoline tax by 50 cents a gallon to 72 cents? The current pump price would go from $1.75 to $2.25 — still a relief from the $4.25 of last summer.

And yet in another, he hopes that his tax, combined with future higher gas taxes depresses consumption:

If consumption dropped, even by 20 or 30 percent, there would still be more than enough money to maintain our roads, with the added benefit of less pollution and congestion.

Like any tax and spend liberal, he has no intention of using the money for highway construction:

If consumption stayed at the current statewide level, about 2.3 billion gallons a year, then annual revenue would increase by more than $1 billion a year, more than enough to fix the $500-million-a-year highway maintenance shortfall identified last year by Gov. Bill Ritter's Blue Ribbon Transportation Finance and Implementation Panel. The surplus could go to mass transit, improved bikeways and other ways of getting around. Even hard-core drivers should favor this — the more people who aren't using the road, the more pleasant your driving experience.

Isn't it nice to know that the Denver Post is working overtime to increase your taxes?