EZPass Not Only Increase Facing Pa. Motorists

Gasoline taxes are going up too. Peter Mucha at 'Philly.com wrote, "Fuel companies will determine how much of the tax increase to pass on to consumers,” said PennDOT spokesman Richard Kirkpatrick. “If entirely passed on, the change would be about 9.5 cents a gallon.”

By early 2017, the new tax rate could add more than 25 cents a gallon, pushing Pennsylvania’s gas taxes higher than any current level in the nation."

This is what happens when Pennsylvania forgoes taxes of nearly $1 billion dollars for Allentown's NIZ and nearly another $750 million to Lancaster and Bethlehem for CRIZ. In addition to Gov. Corbett handing out another $133 million in cardboard checks for RACP projects.

That's almost $2 billion dollars out of a budget of $66 billion (about 3%). The total increases in Pennsylvania Transportation bill is expected to bring in $2.3 billion in additional revenue.

Can you guess who's making up the funding difference for the NIZ, CRIZ and cardboard checks for RACP projects?