Setting steeper, weight-based state motor vehicle fees and closing the light-truck loophole in the federal gas guzzler tax would certainly be helpful.
Such a fast dopaminergic reinforcement signal could, in principle, be used in Area X to correlate vocal performance with an efference copy of vocal motor commands (Fee and Goldberg, 2011) and to drive corticostriatal plasticity at HVC inputs to medium spiny neurons (MSNs).
One alternative is a proposal by Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. to increase motor vehicle registration fees, with higher fees for larger, less fuel- efficient vehicles.
The Chamber would support funding the increase through fuel taxes or motor vehicle registration fees, Studley said.
During his term as governor, he was successful in having Utah replace its progressive income tax with a top rate of 7%, with a flat tax of 5%; cut the statewide sales tax rate from 4.75% to 4.65% and sales tax on unprepared food from 4.70% to 1.75%; and raise motor vehicle registration fees.
The proposal to quadruple the state's motor vehicle insurance fee to $20 has been dropped, as has the plan mockingly called the "crack tax," which would have taxed drug dealers on drugs confiscated by the authorities, and a plan to eliminate the tax cap on fuel purchases.
Despite a campaign promise not to raise taxes, when the outgoing Breathitt administration projected a shortfall of $24 million in the state budget, Nunn convinced the General Assembly to pass an increase in the motor vehicle license fee from $5.00 to $12.50 and raise the state sales tax from three percent to five percent.
In addition to closing the tax loopholes, he called for $75 million in increased fees for motor vehicle registrations and other state agencies.
Many now rely on additional funding sources, such as fees on motor vehicle licenses and special allocations from lotteries.
A fee would be placed on refined motor fuels, which the oil industry could pass on to the consumers; in this case the government would be blamed for the higher costs.
