Posted on 11/19/2016 11:54:49 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Missouri DOT has been criticized for spending gas tax receipts on bike paths, airport approaches, etc. No doubt the same is happening elsewhere.
IMO, today’s construction of roads isn’t as good as the construction of the roads I grew up on.
I was raised rural in Wisconsin. Those roads went thru hot muggy summers & cold, brittle winters. I remember one winter when our thermometers said —70 & that was long before the words ‘wind chill factor’. Every vehicle we had had a head bolt heater & was connected to power every night overnight.
However, we had gravel roads that had used oil spread on them & they didn’t wash out in bad rain storms. We had roads that handled farm equipment & milk trucks every single day of the week. In the winter, the snowplows scraped them well.
Today, the worthiness of road construction makes me cringe. I live rural east of Reno, Nevada. Alot of money was spent to build a new connector between Carson City & so Reno. Called I-580. That road was built since I moved here 11 years ago & they spent the major part of this past summer of 2016 repaving a large amount of it. The concrete was coming apart.
WHY? The basic parts of concrete haven’t changed. This makes me so mad, when taxes are spent in a manner that gives us shoddy roads & we have to keep spending more money for more shoddy work.
All the states are crying because of the electric cars-—which pay no per gallon gas taxes to support the roads & the high MPG cars which don’t use as much fuel.
Fine-—TAX the electric cars with a separate tax. EVERY single state has registration records that can be scanned to accomplish this. They are using the roads, but they are not paying fuel taxes to support the roads.
For the high mileage cars, use the EPA mileage numbers & tax them extra. Add it to their registration, so they cannot skip paying the bill.
I drive a truck & don’t get the best mileage, but this truck is a workhorse for me. Accept the low MPG and every state I have had the truck in charges me extra because ‘my truck is heavier’ than the new cars. My truck is 40 years old & I still drive it. The new ones cost over $65,000 & they are even heavier.
I agree with you. Another way to pay for it that I like is through the dissolution of federal agencies and redirect their budgets to these programs. That coupled with the gas tax removal would be great.
yup. audit the highway fund.
It already is. Gas tax.
Indeed we pay enough taxes however most states like here in Ca puts the money in the general fund to pay for the illegals goodies.
Poole is from reason.org, which is supposedly a libertarian organization
Interstates are not built by governments. Contractors bid for the work
Minor maintenance is the limitation of dot involvement
Media loves toll roads, especially every five feet like in Illinois. Government can handle your money better than you.
What is your point ? Go look up all the rules about how those contractors have to operate, BECAUSE it is a government contract. If it is not a government contract, but something a private business donates to the public, many of those rules can be bypassed.
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