There's background information on raiding the trust fund, you can find that here:
Yo Rab, McCain did something right for once.
Maybe. :-)
I haven’t read this yet, so it’s possible he blamed it all on conservatives in congress...............
Congress Raids the Highway Trust Fund for Pet Projects While Bridges and Roads Crumble
i don’t think any of us should be surprised....
This isn’t news. They have been raiding the Highway Trust Fund for years. Just recently they wanted to increase the federal fuel tax for “roads and bridge” and there was a lot of outcry because they were currently only using a small portion of the HTF for roads and bridges.
You meaning “raiding” as with their 2+ decades raiding of Social Security, as well?
Your link speaks to state spending of tax receipts.
Your post speaks to federal spending of tax receipts, eh?
Not surprising at all. Here in New Jersey we just had all road tolls increased 100% to pay for road and bridge repairs. Seems the Port Authority had used all the money for pet projects like soccer stadiums and community events and had nothing left for actual road repairs.
Classic government shell game. Pass Highway funding legislation as an legitimate cause. Then, once the moneys are funded, raid the fund for pet projects under the cover of darkness.
Scream it from the hightst mountaintops!!!!!!
Someone wake me up from this nightmare.
Every state legislator should be made aware of this. After all, roads in THEIR districts are not going to be funded, just so that some faux-prince/princess an build a fence around an imaginary lake.
Yeah, that’s going to go over REAL good come next November.
Governor Gray David did that 3 times when he was Governor of California.
He basically left an IOU in the Highway trust funds and spent the money instead on all the entitlements that Liberals kept voting for in Sacramento.
That is one of the reasons he was recalled.