Feds warn states about highway funding cut off

The Hill ^ | May 11, 2015 | Keith Laing

[BenLurkin]

Good.

Time for each state’s highway dollars to stay home -— and let the people of each decide on what to build.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

agree stop sending the federal tax on gasoline to washington.

[caww]

Guarantee you those dollars will not stay “Home”.....Our Government is on a huge revenue sharing and give away world wide.....notice we don't see those figures dropping at all unless being used for political purposes.....

[VerySadAmerican]

IF all the highway construction around Houston comes to a halt there will be chaos.

[Paladin2]

Just get the ca$h from 0bama’s Sta$h....

[Jim Robinson]

Amen.

[GeronL]

The states should stop sending the funds to DC in the first place

[NYRepublican72]

The Obama clowns want a 45% increase in transportation funding? Didn’t we already have a stimulus for that? And a stimulus upon a stimulus?

The Feds are already profiting more on a gallon of gas than the oil companies do. No more feeding the Feds for choo-choo trains starting where no one wants to ride and ending where no one wants to ride and bike paths and other junk we don’t need.

[logician2u]

Notice that this article, as most do, attempts to equate "transportation funding" with "road funding."

That has not been the case since the Nixon administration and less so in each succeeding decade.

This paragraph should give a hint as to just who "transportation advocates" are and what their agenda is:

Transportation advocates have pushed Congress to increase the tax for the first time in two decades to pay for a long-term infrastructure funding extension, but lawmakers have been reluctant to ask drivers to pay more at the pump.

Just copy "Transportation advocates" and paste into your favorite Web search engine and the answer is evident. (It's really transit advocates asking for a gas tax increase, since neither they nor their government-run buses and trains would have to pay it.)

[Bubba_Leroy]

Just print some more money. It is Obama’s answer to everything.

[SpaceBar]

Add extortion to the list of charges.

[Texas Eagle]

Not even going to allow myself to get worked up about this. I already know Boner and McConnell will approve whatever amount Urkel demands.

[jjotto]

The trains, Boss, the trains! And bike paths. And global warming regulations.

[bgill]

Let’s see, one in eight (at least) people in the US are illegal. If one in eight drivers were deported, states wouldn’t have this problem.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Americans need to “warn” the commie ass Feds about what is going to happen if they don’t stop stealing OUR money!

[Big Horn]

The Feds collect tax on every gallon of gasoline.

[Nifster]

Oh boo freakin hoo

[Mastador1]

Just get the ca$h from 0bama’s Sta$h....

Probably got it StaShed up moochelles A$h.

[MrEdd]

Yawn.
I remember the 55mph speed limit fiasco in the eighties.
Louisiana let the interstates rot.
Life went on just fine.