Posted on 02/15/2011 2:42:54 PM PST by Qbert
Didn’t they already fix the roads and bridges in the last Porkulus bill?
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Can I ask what happens to the Federal and State Fuel Tax Revenues?
I thought those taxes were to pay for roads.
I guess there’s no use in asking where the fuel taxes, 2290’s (Federal Highway Use Tax), or the 12% Federal Excise Taxes went.
And now they want more? Fuggedaboudit.
“Republicans should applaud one piece of the administrations transportation budget proposalconsolidating 55 highway programs down to five. This would give states and localities greater flexibility to direct resources to their highest priorities, the budget said.”
This is called a bribe. There are no “resources”. Most of the states are technically bankrupt, as is the Federal Government.
Obama is determined to destroy the United States, and we’re relying on a select few Republicans to stop him cold.
We’ll see soon whether Republicans stay together on chopping the budget down to ‘affordable’.
The House needs to allocate ZERO dollars for this.
“Didnt they already fix the roads and bridges in the last Porkulus bill?”
Exactly.
What for? The day of petroleum powered machines is over. I am working on a wind powered boat. I will post pics after my rights to harness this new source are secure.
The military really should be condsidering the 25th amend option.
Why dont we wait until we have the money to pay for all this!
Just another wasted hundreds of billions. We talk about it like it’s chump change!
It is becuase its not thier Money, they are always loose with other peoples (i.e. THE peoples) money.
more shovel ready temp jobs?
The joke was on us?
Didn’t Porkulus repave every highway in the Continental US already?
“Can I ask what happens to the Federal and State Fuel Tax Revenues?
I thought those taxes were to pay for roads.”
Ha..., no, it’s a “motorist wealth redistribution program”...
“It is becuase its not thier Money, they are always loose with other peoples (i.e. THE peoples) money.”
...even when there IS actually no “OPM”, and they have to borrow the money in “the people’s name”...
The federal fuel taxes are only covering about 3/4 of what the federal government spends on highways. The gallons of gasoline and diesel sold the past few years are down while the prices of asphalt, concrete and steel are up significantly. Highways are a subsidized form of transportation in the US.
Highways are a subsidized form of transportation in the US.
That is true, and is why diatribes against rail subsidization, frequent here on FR, are reactionarily simplistic. The question is how much to allocate to where. This also pertains to air travel subsidized by the FAA through Air Traffic Control and airfield improvement.
Altogether a complicated question and sadly trivialized here on FR (which gives the Left all the more ammo; in fact methinks the reactionary stuff here is often agent provocateur material).
Transportation, particularly freight, clearly needs to be subsidized to some degree nationally. For intermediate and long distances I'm a rail advocate for reasons of specific energy (J/kg/mi) and highway incongruity between auto and truck. But I don't trust any one in the federal government, given the agenda-ridden fusillade of lobbyists and lawyers who will argue any which way, to arrive at objective and most efficient solutions.
Thus the primary reason to cut the feds to the bone, then "they" have to evaluate efficiency.
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