Posted on 08/06/2015 4:02:11 PM PDT by RushingWater
In a nutshell: President Reagan agreed to raise the gas tax 5 cents, why won't you too to repair our crumbling infrastructure?
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We’ve given hundreds of billions to fix infrastructure.
Where did that money go?
Correct answer: Because there’s no need to - there is sufficient funding coming in from the gas tax to actually do that.
If we eliminate waste/fraud/padded union prices as well as the constant raiding of the highway fund for bicycle paths, trains to nowhere and other similar things that have NOTHING to do with highways.
Our infrastructure is always “crumbling”.....
From the damned day it is built....
I would tell this ass hat that it should be the state’s responsibility to build roads and the feds should get the hell out of the business of extorting states via highway regulations for 30 pieces of silver.
Let’s take the money from planned parenthood rather than raise the gas tax.
Pompous fool.
Exactly - before we raise taxes and shovel more money into the maw of the beast, we should find out where the last nigh-trillion dollars we authorized for ‘infrastructure’ went and eliminate unnecessary spending.
We’ve given hundreds of billions to fix infrastructure.
Where did that money go?
Common sense...Thank You!
We need Trump! How many dozen times are the crooked bastards in DC going to hose us with THAT ruse. They raise taxes “to repair the infrastructure,” the $$$$ disappear into politicians’ pockets, and nothing gets done to our roads and bridges. We need someone to honcho the deal who won’t screw us over AGAIN!
Let me know when you get an answer.
We spent hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for shovel-ready jobs, and the only shovel-ready job that ever materialized was Jay Carney’s.
Easy answer: When ALL the money collected from fuel taxes goes to infrastructure and we still need more, THEN we’ll talk about raising taxes.
We’ve got infrastructure under construction with funding by other means because of Obama’s political game playing. Canada is paying the entire cost of a new bridge over the Detroit river. Rick Snyder asked for $250 million for related infrastructure on our side of the river and Obama said he would only approve it if we give $100 million of it to Detroit pension funds.
Snyder said “No thank you” and started the project without federal approval or funds. We’ll pay ourselves back and the feds can wait on the revenue generated.
"But since the 1950s, the federal gas tax has been raised under three Republican administrations (Eisenhower, Reagan and George H.W. Bush) and only one Democratic (Clinton)." But since the 1950s, the federal gas tax has been raised under three Republican administrations (Eisenhower, Reagan and George H.W. Bush) and only one Democratic (Clinton).
—WaPo
If New Yawkers want to raise their taxes fine.
I note that roads are fine in Indiana,Turn to crap that has a toll booth every 500 yards in Illinois (Chicago), then are fine again in Wisconsin.
Corruption and graft.
Greenways, bike paths, light rail, union payoffs. And some of it actually went to roads and bridges.
Reagan made mistakes, too.
If reafan jumped off a bridge, does that mean we should demand obama do that? Reagan got shot, peraps we can demand obama get shot. Reaan lowered tax rates across the board, mayeb barry czn do that too.
To make & install all the signs that Obama did which said that “this is a shovel ready project”, etc.
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