Posted on 12/21/2015 12:53:47 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Actually, all US Hiways and Interstate hiways are state roads. There are US Government specifications but the states own and build them
the question was decided in about 1825 when the first federal hiway was mandated from Cumberland Maryland to Vandalia Illinois.
I've never seen a federal snowplow on the Interstates. The contracts I bid as an estimator for the #1 highway contractor in America aren't let by the federal governemnt, but by state governments, often with a federal contribution.
IOW, We ALL pay (and, possibly, those within the the same State pay 2x).
My own $.02 was ‘keep the inter-State system toll-free...then I remembered the N.E. I-95 corridor. Geez, anymore, you can’t drive 5 mi before you’re paying another HUGE tax (aka toll) for the, so called privilege, of ‘speedy-travel’.
Course, if we were to break it down to Constitutional norms: Unless it’s a postal road, the Fed has no authority nor responsibility = State problem, and they can do as they wish. I am still free enough to not care by using or bypassing as *I* require/wish.
It’s not who acts, it’s who pays.
Read the statute. 90% Federal money.
We need to start heavily taxing politicians. Tax them for anything and everything.
Toll roads actually go back further than the 18th century, and not just in the US.
Sales tax. Everybody pays, in every state. BTW: there’s no such thing as - “Indianans”.
If a State builds a roadway with a value to travelers which is greater than the tolls charged, travelers will use it; otherwise, they will choose not to.
With enemy R’s like this......
OH, never mind, we gots state pensions to fund!
It’s actually 80 percent, nowadays.
Will do. And thanks for the link! :-)
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