Here’s the relatively sane rate of funding our roads, IMO:
1. Drill, drill, drill for inexpensive energy, products and GASOLINE AND DIESEL.
2. Tax that GAS AND DIESEL at about $1.50 per gallon or so (combined fed/state).
3. Pay off the bonds on all the toll roads and make ‘em free!
4. PEOPLE HATE TOLLS!!!
Or, you could do like Joetato, the Dumbs and GOPee, restrict energy development, try to force us all into electric vehicles, then ultimately have TOLLS AND EXPENSIVE GASOLINE anyway.
“1. Drill, drill, drill for inexpensive energy, products and GASOLINE AND DIESEL.
2. Tax that GAS AND DIESEL at about $1.50 per gallon or so (combined fed/state).
3. Pay off the bonds on all the toll roads and make ‘em free!
4. PEOPLE HATE TOLLS!!!”
LOVE IT!!!!
Brings back memories. One of the (few) things that I didn’t like about Rush was his abject opposition to fuel taxes, and that was because we either get fuel taxes or nasty toll roads, nothing in between (although in your former Texas, they are partially financing highways from the general fund, but I doubt that’s the case anywhere else).
Anyway, Austin is flooded with Toll Roads but they deserve it - for the rest of Texas it didn’t get nearly as bad as Governor Perry had threatened.