How about we put an end to the endless and senseless wars in the ME and use that money for infrastructure?
How about slapping taxes/fees on money that illegals wire back to their native country?
Did you sleep through Econ 101?
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Econ 101 — the Milton Friedman version — suggests that users should pay for roads and bridges — so that the money saved from ending wars can be broadly distributed via tax cuts.
Taxing illegals is a great idea, but I’d like to share in the benefits if I don’t drive a car or own trucks.
Wrong.
I guess you did sleep.
For those that work/live in cities that have mass transportation that want to share in the benefits of not using a car, I suggest the bus, train and subway fares be non-subsidized. Fares should be based on the cost to provide the service, including capital expenditures for infrastructure. After all, there are untold millions of people who don't use/benefit from mass transportation. When the city dwellers start paying the actual cost for their transportation, then and only then, can they start discussing how to not contribute to highway infrastructure costs.
“Econ 101 — the Milton Friedman version — suggests that users should pay for roads and bridges — so that the money saved from ending wars can be broadly distributed via tax cuts.”
End users paying for infrastructure is the economically correct way of doing things.
However, you and I both know the Dems lie.
Pass the gas tax and watch them “discover” 500 social programs that need the money more.
Remember the tobacco tax?
You realise that a full accounting of where that money went has never been done.
Any proposed gas tax would end up the same, you and I paying exorbitant bills while the infrastructure remains the same.
California is a prime example of this.
A so called “Peace Dividend” has NEVER been returned to We The People by tax cuts. The socialists in our government funnel some into their pockets and the rest to their favorite social programs.
Papa Bush got us militarily in the ME so there was no real savings after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Clinton did what dems do and funneled money to vote buying social programs.
As Mr Friedman said:
“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.”
And
“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”