They’re lucky if the money actually goes to any roads. Usually pols sell the spending as going to roads, but then send the bulk of it to mass transit boondoggles, and people wonder why the roads never get better.
and bike paths.
Jerry Brown (Flush It) bribed CA state congressmen (and I said ‘men’ too) with promised projects in their districts, in return for their votes for the gas tax extortion.
Congressman Fong (R) pointed out that this is a direct, explicit violation of the California Highway Code.
When Fong pressed the point, a state bureaucrat admitted Fong was right, but the bill was ‘part of a larger picture’.