"Massachusetts has poured way more money into the welfare sinkholes of Montana and North Dakota over the last 20 years than we've gotten back for our highway projects. Even at the peak of Tip O'Neill's career, we were barely breaking even on federal taxes. Now it's closer to 78 cents on the dollar."
Speaking of sinkholes....Does that include the $15 Billion Kerry and Kennedy obtained for underground ferry system known as the "Big Dig"?
Absolutely it does, and we're still paying more of our share than Montana, North Dakota, West Virginia, and other states!
The Big Dig went way over budget, but something was going to be done anyway--the elevated highway was way over-capacity and past its life span. The thing was falling apart. It also had too many exits (2/3 were eliminated when it was put underground) to serve as a proper interstate highway. It was built as a local elevated road to serve immediate Boston needs and was only later jerry-rigged into I-93.
A small price to pay for all the cash that Massachusetts taxpayers pay out for "emergency" farm bailouts and crop subsidies in the south and midwest, year after year after year...