[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is exactly what Ayn Rand has always talked about. Statists create a problem, then the clarion call goes out for more money and more authority to "solve" the problem, and the cycle repeats.

All that gas tax revenue is funding liberal pet projects such as walking/bicycle trails, mass transit, and hi-speed rail.

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A hilarious example are the traffic circles in Sedona, Arizona.

When they were built Sedona was a sleepy little town that thought the traffic circles would look pretty.

Now they are traffic nightmares stuck in gridlock with huge campers—overrun by tourists.

This was “central planning” at its most absurd.