What a mile deep pile of horse s—t. How many hundred million or billion gallons of gas do Texas citizens buy each year? Each gallon garners at least $0.50 cents in transportation dollars, perhaps a lot more. Let’s remember that gasoline is probably taxed several times along the say to the pump, where it is taxed again.
Yes large highway projects cost billions, but the state doesn’t have to sit down and draft a check for the project in advance. It can pay as it goes, and borrow upon future tax revenues. Ten, twenty or even thirty years of taxes will buy you a awful lot of highway.
I’m here to tell you, these super highway corridors are going in if they have to be built over the grave sights of tens of thousands of Texans in the process.
And you folks thought this was representative government, answerable to the people.
LMAO
Welcome to reality. We’ve lost major portions of our representative government, and are losing more every day.
It’s time for the sheeple to ban together and speak with a unified voice when it comes to nonsense like this.
Why should we build a massive corridor so that Chinese goods can be offloaded at Mexican ports, just so we can put more U.S. citizen out of work? Honest to God folks, where does it end.
I’ve certainly had enough. Has anyone else?
As you said, the TTC will bring cheap Chinese goods from Mexican harbors into Texas via smog-spewing Mexican trucks---at the cost of many American jobs, not to mention the safety of our roads. It will also provide a "superhighway" for drugs and illegal aliens.
I hope the Texans fight like Hell. We should all be there with them. The Nafta Superhighway will damage more than Texas.
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Trans-Texas Corridor – Because there are issues of confiscation of private land, State and National sovereignty and other similar concerns, we urge the repeal of the Trans-Texas Corridor legislation.
But Rick Perry doesn't care. Perry is one of the 4 governors (Perry, Richardson, Napolitano, Schwartzenegger) who, under McCain's new scheme, would "certify" that the border is "secure" before McCain proceeded with amnesty.
Just one reason I don't trust McCain.
I've had enough too! The citizens of this state no longer have a voice in government. Our "leaders" are trying to sell us out and I'm disgusted by their actions.