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To: Jarhead9297
If you leave it up to the states to fund their own highway repairs, then the states on the East and West coasts have every incentive to just go out and tear up the last mile of freeway connecting them to their neighboring states in the interior.

Go back and research the history of our national road laws. It's pretty fascinating. The first Federal road was legislated as one of the conditions Ohio demanded before it would join the U.S. in 1803. Ohio was really the first U.S. state that had no historical links to the Atlantic Ocean (Vermont, Kentucky and Tennessee had previously been provinces or territories of original Thirteen Colonies with ports on the Atlantic), so this was a real turning point in our nation's history when it came to a Federal role in building and maintaining roads.

110 posted on 06/12/2017 8:29:30 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Alberta's Child

Thank you and I shall


111 posted on 06/12/2017 8:30:42 AM PDT by Jarhead9297
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