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Texas voters support conservative, pay-as-you-go solutions for transportation budget crisis
Texas Future | April 10th, 2013

April 10, 2013 – Austin, TX - Texas Future announces the release of a statewide survey conducted among registered voters highlighting the opposition to additional debt-financing while preferring a conservative, pay-as-you-go, set of solutions to meet Texas’ looming transportation budget shortfall. Findings show that Texas voters support a plan that calls for equitable increases in dedicated transportation user fees rather than continuing to fund of our state roads and highways with more debt and the development of additional toll roads. This N=800 statewide study was fielded among registered voters from April 7-9, 2013 by national survey research firm Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research. The margin of error is + 3.5%.

David Polyansky, on behalf of Texas Future, noted “our representatives in Austin have presented a host of solutions to solve the transportation budget shortfall. At this stage, there are two primary pathways to choose from: (i) paying a little more now in terms of minor user fees paid by all who use our roads – allowing Texas to fund transportation on a “pay-as-you-go” basis or (ii) continuing to pass a constantly growing invoice onto future generations of Texans by financing the transportation budget shortfall with new debt. Key highlights from the survey include the following: * When asked if voters support or oppose the state adding to the public debt by issuing bonds to pay for the transportation shortfall, a plurality (45%) oppose this, this is underscored by twenty-nine percent (29%) who oppose adding to the public debt strong!o Among conservative Republicans, fully fifty-six percent (56%) oppose adding to the public debt by paying for our roads with more bonds, while just thirty-one percent (31%) approve.

* Voters are staunchly opposed to using any new transportation revenues for new toll roads. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of registered voters oppose using additional transportation funding to developing new toll roads, while just thirty-four percent (34%) support this.!o A solid majority of conservative Republicans (61%) oppose the use of new transportation revenue for toll roads, driven by forty percent (40%) who strongly oppose this. * Texas voters are solidly in support of new user fees (74%) if the new revenue cannot be diverted for other purposes and will be used for building and sustaining our current roads only. - See more at: http://www.texasfuture.com/2013/04/10/pay-as-yougo/#sthash.JBBGRnV2.dpuf

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