It's a slippery slope. If we approve a gas tax it's never coming back down. If we don't approve a gas tax our roads and bridges could continue to fall apart. Which one do you choose?
Over the last couple of years you may have noticed an uptick in the number of street improvements that are going on around Shreveport, and that's no accident. (Pardon the pun.) From 2015 through 2016, the City undertook 148 street improvement projects at a cost of nearly $46 million...
A higher gas tax or toll roads and bridges could be revenue raising measures the state could take to on a $13 billion backlog of road and bridge improvements.
A state government task force is expected to recommend that you and I pay more for fuel so that you and I can drive on better roads. Good idea or not so good idea?