Posted on 04/30/2014 8:05:46 PM PDT by DBCJR
We already pay federal gas taxes to do that and we also pay state taxes to maintain the highways. So now we must pay tolls on roads that we built using our taxes. This is just another tax. We are being taxed to death.
Highway trust fund will be broke in August
http://www.examiner.com/article/highway-trust-fund-will-be-broke-august
but look at all those choo choo trains and bike paths!
This system is based on two fundamental principles: Federalism and the principle of benefits. Both come to us from the founders. President Eisenhower started this program because he learned as an officer that the US road system fell far short of the needs for logistical purposes in fighting a war, so he proposed that, since national defense was a federal — not state — function, a national trust would be created which would be entrusted to use gas taxes only for the purpose of an interstate highway system. It was to be based on gas taxes and tolls to conform with the principle of benefits as presented by Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations published in 1776.
It no longer functions that way. It has become a congressional slush fund, in which almost half the money is ladled out through the corrupt system of congressional earmarks. The next time you drive on a highway which is named after a politician, think corruption.
Time to shut it down. The proceeds of the tax should be automatically remitted to state governments, or better yet, regional planning agencies. And regulatory barriers to privatization strategies should be repealed. We’re broke. We can no longer afford to be stupid.
I actually read that one. Not a bad option. It leaves the Congressional subhumans out of the debate entirely. :-)
Transportation Empowerment Act
Introduced by U.S. Rep. Tom Graves & U.S. Sen. Mike Lee
http://tomgraves.house.gov/tea/
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/104/hr3840/text
TEA: Learn it, love it, live it.
” Not one dime”_ President Barack Obama on raising taxes, if you make less than $200,000 a year.
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