[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hether it’s correctly called a movement, a backlash or political theater, state declarations of their rights — or in some cases denunciations of federal authority, amounting to the same thing — are on a roll.

[rangerone314]

About dang time.

[Cloud9]

Agreed, one size does not fit all.

[Pretorian]

Just curious, are those states that leech off Federal Government ( oh sorry, from other states and ability of Federal Government to borrow and rob other countries) are also in this move for "States Rights" ?

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'J')ust curious, are those states that leech off Federal Government ( oh sorry, from other states and ability of Federal Government to borrow and rob other countries) are also in this move for "States Rights" ?

[gollum]

Historically most taxes were state and local, and spent in the state or locality. Today more taxes are paid to Washington who then doles them back to the states with strings attached. Personally I'd like to see Wyoming refuse ever dollar of federal support, then cease complying with every federal mandate passed over the last forty years. We could do so by turning our interstates into toll roads, and charging trucks about $25 to use them.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', 'H')istorically most taxes were state and local, and spent in the state or locality. Today more taxes are paid to Washington who then doles them back to the states with strings attached. Personally I'd like to see Wyoming refuse ever dollar of federal support, then cease complying with every federal mandate passed over the last forty years. We could do so by turning our interstates into toll roads, and charging trucks about $25 to use them.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'J')ust curious, are those states that leech off Federal Government ( oh sorry, from other states and ability of Federal Government to borrow and rob other countries) are also in this move for "States Rights" ?

[mattduke]

Ludi, what are the benefits of leaving the productive economy to join the military?

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', ' ') $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'J')ust curious, are those states that leech off Federal Government ( oh sorry, from other states and ability of Federal Government to borrow and rob other countries) are also in this move for "States Rights" ?

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', ' ') $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'J')ust curious, are those states that leech off Federal Government ( oh sorry, from other states and ability of Federal Government to borrow and rob other countries) are also in this move for "States Rights" ?

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', ' ')We could do so by turning our interstates into toll roads, and charging trucks about $25 to use them.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', ' ') $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'J')ust curious, are those states that leech off Federal Government ( oh sorry, from other states and ability of Federal Government to borrow and rob other countries) are also in this move for "States Rights" ?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'L')udi, what are the benefits of leaving the productive economy to join the military?

[Ludi]

Saw a guy in the grocery store today wearing a "Texas Nationalists" t-shirt, buying Mexican beer - not Texas beer. Tsk tsk!

http://www.texasnationalist.com/

[the48thronin]

Total fed and state fuel tax for Wyoming is $.392 per gallon...

Our average truck 6.1 mpg due to grades and wind

Total distance east to west I 80 401 miles.

Total present cost to drive across wyoming one time ...

39.2 divided by 6.1 times 401 = $25.77 so whats new, a discount?

You think Wyoming is expensive.. try New york state.

IF the toll road is state owned and exempt from other taxation as some are... I'll come out ahead at 25$ If it is a double taxation like the New York throughway..I'll avoid Wyoming like I do New York.

Our 2 trucks paid 14,000 dollars in fuel taxes for the 12 months of last year.

Before you think you understand you might want to see what IFTA is... much money is collected in one state for another via fuel taxes.. This skews the numbers on donor/user basis of taxes to the fed government. Many trucks do not buy fuel in Wyoming because they collect too little tax at the pump meaning you as the trucker OWE them to the states you drive in using fuel bought in Wyoming.

So you buy fuel in a higher tax state "over paying" your taxes on the fuel you will burn in Wyoming leaving a residual positive IFTA balance to offset the ton mile taxes of the really greedy states like New York, Kentucky, and New Mexico for instance which collect not only a fuel tax but also asses a second ton mile tax of 12 , 13, or even 14 cents a mile for each mile traveled on top of the fuel tax.

Each quarter BILLIONS of dollars are shifted from state to state as trucks file their IFTA reports.