So while Delaware waits for Governor Carney to act like a Democrat (hint, it’s not going to happen), Chief Justice Leo Strine testified yesterday asking the Bond Committee to raise the gasoline tax. As much as I would like to see the gasoline tax raised, they only way I would support it is if income taxes on the richest is raised as well. A gas tax would be a burden on the working class and poor in Delaware. If they need to pony up some more money than the folks in 19807 need to pay as well.
By the way, Gov. Carney, this is what a Democrat looks like.
Chief Justice Strine also suggested changes may be coming to the state’s system of fines. Traffic tickets, for instance, have about $70 in costs unrelated to speeding attached to them.
Those fines, the chief justice told Bond Bill members, are holding back disadvantaged members of society.
“A lot of these folks who commit some of these offenses, if they had the money to pay the fine, they wouldn’t have done the shoplifting or whatever,” he said.