Posted on 05/01/2014 6:52:51 AM PDT by Cheerio
As with many federal accounts, the Highway Trust Fund is running on empty. Refilled with the 18.4-cent per gallon gas tax and disbursed by politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, the federal highway fund faces a $63 billion shortfall through 2018. Texas gets $2-3 billion per year from the fund which goes towards the roughly $7 billion in yearly Texas Department of Transportation expenditures.
A shortage of funds tends to concentrate the mindwhich is why the White House just proposed lifting an old federal restriction against tolling on 46,000 miles of interstate roads. This would allow states to collect tolls on federal interstates for the purpose of funding repairs and expansion.
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More likely intended to track and control your movements.
And if you don’t drive on the Interstate? Tough shitski - you get taxed anyway.
There is plenty of money from gas taxes if they didn’t waste it on boondoggle train schemes.
Not too many things left for him to tax.
Why is the fund empty?
True, but everything you buy gets shipped on interstate highways. People who don’t drive get their goods subsidized by those who do.
See #4.
Probably a list of intended agenda items. In addition to movement control:
More patronage jobs - toll takers, their supervisors, and their management is a great way for ‘Rat pols to reward their
campaign supporters.
More union control, more union dues, more union contributions to ‘Rats.
If you are burning too much gas, deemed by the government monitors, you will be taxed more. If you are using the roads too much, well the toll booths will tax you in increments, such as the first 5 monthly toll passes are free, the next 5 are $1, and the next 5 are $100 per pass.
Your home is being heated more than at 67 degrees in the winter. Yep, that's causing global warming. The government will remotely turn your thermostat down or they will surcharge tax you about X therm units per month of gas or electricity.
No, Obama isn't a Marxist. Democrats haven't moved left of Mao. It's all your imagination. What the press doesn't report isn't news after all.
Spot on
It's all mine, It's all mine, It's all mine!
Add in speed control. Get to toll booth #2 too quick = violation.
You already are tracked by the license plate. They want a database and more
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3124707/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3122555/posts
And TSA groping, and no drive lists.
Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
Gotta keep the rabble in their place
The fascist minds creating these 'projects' have as their goal the complete removal of sovereign freedom of We The People, to be under the womb to tomb dictatorship of the elites. Trillions have been siphoned off from tax coffers for non-law based 'projects' (like black weaponry projects and massive missuse of social security funds).
God only knows what these latest projects must be that the entire Interstate highway system must be metered to fund them! The banking elites know, you can bet your behind, they know and have planned the entire process which the criminal enterprise of little bastard barry will try to institute.
How about they STOP building these wasteful and UNwanted round-abouts?
There is one spot here in WI, where you get dizzy trying to get to Cabella’s when you drive through five (5) of them right in a row. How smart is that, Dems?
Don’t say that. These demons want to install a carbon tax, which is essentially taxing the air you and I breathe.
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