To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
No, the problem is that the feds are using highway funds for general purposes. Get rid of the federal gas tax and force states to pay for their own roads. Roads and infrastructure are vital public services and should not be privatized.While I agree with you that the states should collect all of the gas tax and use it to pay for highways, I want to point out that states are no better than the feds at siphoning gas tax money on unrelated spending.
Heck, in Penna. they want to put tolls on Interstate 80 but use the toll money to pay for transit programs in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. I-80 in Penna. goes nowhere near either city.
41 posted on
06/13/2009 1:00:05 PM PDT by
pnh102
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To: pnh102
I want to point out that states are no better than the feds at siphoning gas tax money on unrelated spending. But that spending is more closer to home and will be more accountable to voters. Gas tax revenues to the feds goes into a bottomless black hole.
79 posted on
06/13/2009 4:59:49 PM PDT by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
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