Let's put on another 50 cent / gallon gas tax.
How bout we just cut all the extra spending that uses highway funds to build bike paths and rain gardens.
Just another way to punish us because he has had a bad week.
:: The fund is financed through gasoline taxes...
The Department of Transportation said, on average, states should expect a 28% cut in federal funds for construction projects. ::
So, will we see a corresponding 28% reduction in gasoline taxes?
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I kill me!
Gee, with Obama’s economy surging along at -3% let’s raise fuel prices!
FORWARD COMRADES!
Reporting of government spending on highways and other infrastructure is so filled with lies and distortions that it isn’t funny. You can never get a real picture of whether there is adequate funding for real infrastructure projects, like repairing roads and bridges. “Infrastructure” includes a lot of “green” projects these days, like bike paths and walking trails, as well as useless highway spending like multi-million dollar electronic billboards that really aren’t necessary. Plus bids are inflated by overpriced union labor and awards to crony capitalist contractors who get them because of who they know. I suspect that even with these “huge” cuts, there would be enough money to fund the really necessary projects at competitive rates.
Let's put on another 50 cent / gallon gas tax.
take it from welfare and foreign aid to terrorist organizations and countries, ie every moosie country and entity.
SLASH WELFARE!
Save Urban Feral bastards from obesity!
This is the National Park Service shutdown all over again. Another Obama spite freakout.
They could start with Bill Clinton’s .043 cents gas tax in 1993, which was implemented not for roads, etc., but for the “General Treasury”. I think it was the first time in that tax’s history, that taxes imposed went elsewhere.
Instead it is being spent on obama phones and welfare payments to illegal aliens who send the money to their families South of the border.
The first sure sign of collapse of a socialist state is the decay of its roads and transportation infrastructure as the money intended for infrastructure upkeep is diverted to paying off welfare layabouts.
Good examples of this are Detroit, much of the East Coast Urban areas and pretty much all of California
Shovel ready.
I guess an extra trillion of rolled over stimulus just wasn’t enough.
How about we cut entitlements for a bit?