Better Roads
-
Provides additional revenue to fund improvements to our roads
March 19, 2015
The promise, and what it rests on
“Provides additional revenue to fund improvements to our roads”, dated 19 March 2015, is the campaign’s infrastructure argument in one line. It names no rate, no fund and no road. We have not supplied those details, because this page does not carry them.
The mechanism behind a claim like this is always the same and is worth knowing in the abstract: casino gaming is taxed on net gaming receipts, the tax lands in a state fund, and the legislature decides what the fund pays for. Which fund, at which rate, and with what guarantee that the money reaches a particular highway, is a question for the filed amendment text and the statutes written under it — not for a campaign slide. This domain’s own front page once sat beneath the logo of the Arkansas Department of Transportation; that link is still on the home page, kept as published.
No byline, on purpose. Material here is signed by the desk and not by an invented person: if you see a name on a page, it belongs to someone quoted or to the author of a document, never to a persona we made up to look like a staff of ten.
Each number has an owner. Revenue lines, tax shares, licence numbers and dates are copied from the filing, report or operator page that holds them, and the sentence using a figure says where it came from. Where the source has no figure, this site leaves the sentence out instead of estimating one.
Mistakes get fixed in place. Point one out at [email protected]: the wrong line is rewritten on the page you read it on, with the old wording quoted underneath, so the change is visible rather than quietly swallowed.