Posted on 09/12/2008 12:01:23 PM PDT by smokinleroy
How about eliminating waste, fraud, layers of bureaucracy, and millions of dollars for 'diversity training' programs?
If they stop doing the last bit, they'll have all the money they need from existing tax revenues.
Tolling 80 would have been a disaster, driving all sorts of traffic on to backroads & secondaries not designed for heavy truck traffic.
And the whole deal was a scheme to fund Philly transit!
Woo hoo.. I work for a manufacturing company that is 10 miles off of I-80 (SR 220 Clinton County) with plans to build a distribution center literally right off I-80 Lamar exit. The tolls would of been devastating to us.
Yeah, politicians never think of that.
Pennsylvania has one of the highest state gas taxes at 32.3 cents (9th highest in the USA).. Rendell has been moving state money into Philadelphia at an alarming rate and unfortunantely there are few that are willing to stand up to him.
We blew an opportunity to oust him when we nominated Lynn Swann who ran a horrible campaign.
There’s no real GOP rising star here outside of Hazelton mayor Lou Baretta who is running for a congressional seat.
Excellent!
bump
How are Rendell’s casinos working out?
They are creating revenue, but not enough to lower property taxes.....which is how it was sold to citizens.
Fast Eddie needs to be stopped for the next 2 years.
2 major Rendell initiatives are probably dead for the rest of his tenure as governor.
From "smokinleroy": ""Rendell and the dems lose. PA wins."
Without judging the merits of the lease idea, in principal, or the exact proposal, I don't know how "PA wins", in either case, if (1)current slated state revenues dedicated for I-80 maintenance are not doing the job and (b) the end result now is in fact a stalemate on an issue for which the taxpayers need a solution, if I-80 is to remain a well maintained highway along the PA portion of its route without emergency borrowing or budget finagling when deteriorating conditions demand it. It seems to me that no one "wins" anything, at this point.
The people of rural PA may say, for now, they have "won" because there will not be tolls. But the rest of the people of the state (most of the state) may think they "lost" and if they do, then the rural residents along I-80 will know they have lost too, when the winter-created pot-holes, water-run-off systems, bridges and overpasses are not repaired as regularly from one year to the next.
Along most of its PA length, I-80 is overwhelmingly "rural" with very sparse populations on either side. I would guess (from my many travels on it) that 3/4ths of its traffic is people and commerce (long-haul shippers) crossing PA and not originating anywhere in PA.
That rural population there, for which I-80 shortens the travel time between long-distant rural communities along it, could never have paid for I-80 on their own and they require revenues from somewhere - other state taxpayers, or "tolls", to keep the road viable. The rest of the state taxpayers are NOT so much off-base in looking at a "toll" solution, because, as I said, the vast majority of the revenue from it WOULD NOT come from PA residents.
If 0 wins, Act 44 will be rammed through again and the 0 Administration will approve it.
Sure they will.
Like the income tax was only supposed to be less than 10%.
Like social Security was not to be used as identification.
Like the SS payments were put in a lockbox.
Like you'll have weekends off when you join the Navy.
LOL !!
More shenanigans coming !!
Ping.
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I had high hopes for Pat Toomey, but when Bush and Santorum torpedoed him in favor of Arlen Sphincter, he seemed to drop off the map.
I supported Toomey too but I wasn’t convinced he could win in the General Election. I think Hoeffel would of beaten him.
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