Yes!
Its out of TRUST!
In a world run by Democrats, funding for the Entitlement Army is always going to outrank funding for places for personal vehicles to spew their evil emissions into Gaia.
Let me guess...raise federal gas taxes! Liberals are idiots.
Don’t worry, the government will SOLVE this problem by installing transponders in our cars (or simply using license plate cameras - no difference), and then CHARGING US based on where we drive, when we drive, whether we drive alone, what we drive, and how far we drive.
We will get an ITEMIZED bill via E-Mail from the government. And the Tea Party will be HAPPY, because gas taxes never went, and tolls are a “user fee”, so no issue there.
My point is that, as we’re learning now in Texas, WE WILL PAY to drive, one way or another. That is a FACT.
One more step to being a turd world country: a crumbling, unsafe infrastructure.
Where the ONLY frigging airport around is.
There is tons of traffic for the ferry there.
I wish the media would quit mis-characterizing that.
/johnny
30 some percent makes it back to the highways and bridges - after the DC politicians and their pals blow the rest on waste, fraud, and abuse on their non highway projects ?
That’s because they play trains, build bike paths, and greenbelts with the tax monies taken via fuel tax, instead of building roads and bridges for vehicles.
Both the feds and the states have been siphoning off highway tax money (mostly gasoline but there are others) for decades.
Had that money been invested in ongoing maintenance as was intended there would be no highway condition crisis.
I bet it’s all being spent on special projects to make Eco-nuts, gays and Muslims happy
What “Highway Trust Fund?” Hahahahahahah!!
The states should rebel immediately, and refuse to send another damn dollar to Fedgov for highways, and take over the Interstates themselves.