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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
So basically, if they would just segregate the gas tax for road construction, we would be fine. I love government, first they tax you for something, then siphon off 45% of those project funds to their other “vital” projects, and then they come back and ask us to pay more taxes because they have stolen too much to complete the original projects. It’s frigging insanity!
16 posted on 04/07/2007 8:02:25 PM PDT by spikeytx86 (Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by their fruity little club.)
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To: spikeytx86; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Diddle E. Squat; deport; maui_hawaii; Ben Ficklin; zeugma; ...
So basically, if they would just segregate the gas tax for road construction, we would be fine.

No it wouldn't be fine. Every time there is a shortfall, South Texas gets screwed. Taxes are collected throughout the state, but expeditures are concentrated mostly in and near large cities. Corpus Christi didn't get connected to the Interstate Highway System until 1981 which was a full ten years after the orginal Interstate system was supposed to be finished. Corpus Christi didn't even get four lane divided highways all the way to Houston till 1988. Supposedly the Interstate system was to connect over 95% of the cities with over 50,000 population. Corpus Christi had over 200,000 in 1970 and has almost 300,000 now. A toll road system connecting the whole state together is a lot fairer than the current system that taxes everyone but allocates funding to the biggest cites with the most representation in the legislature.

20 posted on 04/07/2007 9:21:01 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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