Posted on 01/04/2015 11:52:21 AM PST by Olog-hai
Right, but personal experience has taught me that welfare should be there. We don’t live in such a responsibility filled society at the moment and I don’t like how it’s become a huge free for all for too many people, but it should be there. I speak from personal experience the need for a social safety net. It’s not just people who have made messes of their lives through bad choices, but needing to make a break from bad people. Not everyone has a support network.
He’s turned into one.
I understand the point about toll roads, but keep in mind that the National Pike you reference was a publicly-owned toll road, not a private one.
One flaw of the Federalist approach became clear in the War of 1812. The United States of America was incapable of defending its own borders if it was a loose confederacy of autonomous states.
The current president of the American Trucking Association is Bill Graves, the former governor of Kansas whose family has been in the trucking business for several generations.
I am not against charity just against the governments taking for one person to give to another. People are charitable and more likely to give of free will when the government gets out of he way. There is always help we just don’t need to endorse theft by the government to provide it.
The number of cars has gone up.
It’s cheaper to maintain than build.
Put new projects out for bids, don’t just give them to your buddies.
Stop using road taxes for non-road projects and then let me know if the money is still not enough.
No.. We will end up with Tracking, tolling, higher fuel taxes and likely some more taxes on top of that.
Giving up before the fight eh?
we’re gonna pay more. so lets do it this way.
You and Chetto must be best buds.
registration tax, fuel tax, tax on parts, tax on tires....
oh we pay alright..
Now, if you want to tax the life out of plug in electrics and hybrids.. Go for it!
Me? I pay more than my fair share of road taxes.
“Nope, not when we can have A LOT of upgraded and widened roads if we spend $3,611,000,000,000.00 instead. I’m willing to spend the extra 0.3% needed for decent roads.”
Governments as a whole have been blowing that off for years and blowing the money on other things like bike paths, walking paths and bus lanes.
Get back to me after they spend the money given to them for roads.. on roads.
When the I-35 bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, bodies were still in the water when the Minneapolis mayor declared some of the rebuilding money would go to bike paths.
I know... he was an idiot. like 99% of politicians.
Part of the reason our Republican governor - Corbett of Pennsylvania - lost to a liberal Democrat, is that he and the Republican legislature raised the gas tax.
The taxpayers do not have money trees out back.
RINO Corbett did his part for the Uniparty. Probably had fingers crossed for Wolf to succeed him. Most likely the effort to put tolls on I-80 was a diversionary tactic.
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