Taxation without representation — back by popular demand!

Or so the hacks at the State House and their greed-crazed puppet-masters would have you believe. They’re lusting to impose eternal, automatic increases on the gasoline tax, and the only way you can stop them from robbing you blind is to vote Yes on ballot Question 1 in November.

The unions and the construction industries loaded the gun, and the Legislature put it to the taxpayers’ head and will pull the trigger if they’re not stopped at the ballot box.

I repeat, vote Yes on Question 1 or prepare to pay the price, literally.

Every Jan. 1, you will be hit with an automatic tax increase at the gas pump. No vote, no input, just get your hands up and hand over your money. Period.

The politicians don’t care. Consider Marsha Coakley – she gets a state police car, remember? The legislators get a “per-diem” to pay for their gas. All the six-figure appointed hacks drive their state cars home.

You ask, what if deflation sets in, as in Japan? Does the gas tax then decrease automatically? Good question, and of course the answer is no. The tax only goes up Up UP. It never goes down.

Talk about highway robbery. This stickup is worth so much to the usual suspects that they have already raised $809,000 for the “Committee for Safer Roads and Bridges,” which has as much to do with safer roads and bridges as the “Affordable Care Act” has to do with “affordable” health care.

Don’t Kill the Job Coalition — that’s what this is really all about. More and more of those 10-year rebuilding and repaving projects, after which, they immediately begin digging up what they just spent a decade or two repaving.

The biggest source of anti-Question 1 funds is something called Mass. Aggregate and Asphalt Paving. They’ve poured (get it?) $100,000 into the campaign. Mass. Aggregate’s members include Oxford Asphalt, Hudson Liquid Asphalt, NuStar Asphalt Refining, Ambrose Asphalt Equipment, Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Seacoast Asphalt Services …

Key word: asphalt.

The unstated rationale behind this outrageous proposal couldn’t be any more cynical. An annual automatic tax hike will free the Legislature from having to take a vote on a controversial issue that might lead to the corrupt hacks on Beacon Hill actually facing a challenger in the next election.

And of course the endless billions from an automatic tax will never be used to pad the outrageous prevailing-wage settlements that prevail nowhere except in the hackerama. It won’t be used to bail out the MBTA pension fund. The extorted money, they assure us, will be “earmarked.” Wink wink, nudge nudge.

Everybody who gets fat off the endless repaving projects is trying to push this through. Big Asphalt, the pinky-ring thug unions, guardrail companies, engineering firms dreaming of no-bid contracts.

As usual, the taxpayers are being outspent by the kleptocrats who’ve grown fat off their earlier ripoffs of the productive citizens they’re now trying to rob again. Tankthegastax.org has $5,000, compared to $653,000 for the Save the Hack Jobs Coalition.

You can’t say you weren’t warned. Vote Yes on Question 1.