Georgia pauses gas tax

[Bailey28]

The state of Georgia has temporarily suspended it's gas tax saving drivers about 33 cents per gallon on gasoline and 37 cents per gallon on diesel. This is for at 60 day period, perhaps long enough to get through the war.

How cool is that? I wonder if other states will follow.

 

[Chris142]

California certainly wont.

 

[Trav]

No way in Hades is Massachusetts AKA California East doing that, if anything I would not be surprised if they added more. Ditto a few of the others.

 

[Dave Hess]

I doubt other states will do that.

Get ready cause things will get expensive.

 

[rijndael]

Virginia will not follow, the current elected officials will probably double the gas tax for spite.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Its a smart idea. The GA economy will do better comparatively for it even if the state budget does not. Gas prices are a phycological drag as well as a real one so small businesses will be more likely to continue hiring and people more willing to spend.

 

[nwjones18]

Best I can tell our state is being run fairly well from a financial standpoint… we’ve gotten budget surplus refunds the past few years and there is a plan to phase out state income tax.

They’ve suspended the gas tax a few other times too for hurricanes or other events that have spiked prices.

 

[NiwradND]

Its funny how some states like Minnesota can't wait to tax people and then spend money like crazy and North Dakota tries to cut taxes. North Dakota is trying to do away with property taxes.

 

[andrew_j]

The state of Georgia has temporarily suspended it's gas tax saving drivers about 33 cents per gallon on gasoline and 37 cents per gallon on diesel. This is for at 60 day period, perhaps long enough to get through the war.

How cool is that? I wonder if other states will follow.

Prices aren’t dropping for another year. Is there an election coming soon in GA?

 

[PWMDMD]

Since the federal budget is national, and Georgia receives more total federal money than it pays in federal taxes overall, does this mean even more of my tax dollars will flow from Massachusetts to Georgia through the federal government to cover the lost revenue?

Yes, I'm breaking Georgia's chops...

 

[GON]

Since the federal budget is national, and Georgia receives more total federal money than it pays in federal taxes overall, does this mean even more of my tax dollars will flow from Massachusetts to Georgia through the federal government to cover the lost revenue?

Yes, I'm breaking Georgia's chops...

Kindly post a breakdown of the "Georgia receives more total federal money than it pays in federal taxes overall". Would love to see the numbers in detail you are using to come up with that statement.

 

[fdcg27]

So has Georgia found some way to reduce its road maintenance budget by 16.5%?
No?
A feel good populist gesture that will make little economic difference to Georgians while inevitably resulting in more deferred road maintenance.
I also wonder how much of this tax reduction will be passed down to drivers as opposed to being captured by fuel sellers?

 

[Pablo]

So has Georgia found some way to reduce its road maintenance budget by 16.5%?
No?
A feel good populist gesture that will make little economic difference to Georgians while inevitably resulting in more deferred road maintenance.
I also wonder how much of this tax reduction will be passed down to drivers as opposed to being captured by fuel sellers?

Any state could find 20+% waste to cut, especially stupid states like WA who just tax tax tax and still say they need more money.

For what? Homelessness encouragement camps and the roaming FSA zombies.

 

[PWMDMD]

Kindly post a breakdown of the "Georgia receives more total federal money than it pays in federal taxes overall". Would love to see the numbers in detail you are using to come up with that statement.

Lol...Is this not common knowledge? Yes, most of the "low tax states" siphon money from the high tax states through the federal government to meet their budgets.

The Rockefeller data cited earlier shows Georgia paid about $118.9 billion in federal receipts and received about $162.6 billion in federal expenditures in 2023, for a net gain of $43.7 billion. In federal fiscal year 2023, the Rockefeller Institute found that 47 states had a positive balance of payments with Washington, meaning they received more in federal spending than federal revenues collected from them; only Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington were net donor states that year.

https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-payments-portal/

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/12/states-money-federal-government

 

[fdcg27]

Any state could find 20+% waste to cut, especially stupid states like WA who just tax tax tax and still say they need more money.

For what? Homelessness encouragement camps and the roaming FSA zombies.

Sure, just like one could easily find an even greater proportion of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.
How did that work out?

 

[Pablo]

Sure, just like one could easily find an even greater proportion of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.
How did that work out?

Judges stepped in ignorantly and politically and stopped the cuts.

You honestly believe there isn't waste?

 

[PWMDMD]

No way in Hades is Massachusetts AKA California East doing that, if anything I would not be surprised if they added more. Ditto a few of the others.

That way we can continue to subsidize the poor states who dont collect enough in taxes to meet their budget needs. The same recipients of our charity also often talk the most smack about states like Massachusetts.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Why? Stupidity should have consequences.

This mentality is why business leaves Michigan, and business movevs to Georgia.

Novel concept - a state doing whats best for its citizens.

 

[fdcg27]

Judges stepped in ignorantly and politically and stopped the cuts.

You honestly believe there isn't waste?

I would say that the entire premise was ignorant and the plan was doomed to fail without any federal judicial involvement.
There is waste in all budgets be they governmental, corporate or personal.
The question is how much and whether the costs involved in tracking and eliminating it are commensurate with the potential savings.

 

[PWMDMD]

Judges stepped in ignorantly and politically and stopped the cuts.

You honestly believe there isn't waste?

I honesty believe those looking for waste don't really care about saving dime and it's just a political stunt. Recent history supports this idea.