Texas Legislature Moves to Raise Taxes

Consumer Reports called the proposed $200 electric vehicle tax "punitive;" it's three times as much as a conventional sedan pays in state gas tax

Four years ago, Texas legislators asked the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to study and recommend a fair electric vehicles (EV) tax that would hit EV drivers no harder than the gas tax hits drivers of conventional cars and trucks. 

About 29% of the money that pays for road building and repairs in Texas comes from the gas tax — which, of course,…