Are the Interstate Highways next?

Lowcountry

[K-oneTexas]

I agree.

In the U.S. we have ‘Numbered Highways’ (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways or Federal Highways) and these highways but they have always been maintained by state or local governments since their initial designation in 1926.

Interstate Highways, created by President Eisenhower, and their rights of way are owned by the state in which they were built. The last federally owned portion of the Interstate System was the Woodrow Wilson Bridge on the Washington DC Capital Beltway.

About 70 percent of the construction and maintenance costs of Interstate Highways in the United States have been paid through user fees, mostlyfuel taxes collected by the federal, state, and local governments. To a much lesser extent they have been paid for by tolls collected on toll highways and bridges.

Trivia for some.

[elkfersupper]

Fine.

I avoid those anyway.

Nothing but a tunnelized money trap for states, counties and municipalities.

The only speeders, left-lane hoggers, non-seatbelt wearers and cell phone users I see out there are cops.

[Amendment10]

As a side note to the federal government and highways, please consider the following. With all due respect to the Eisenhower family, similarly as Constitution-ignoring Obama ignored a required healthcare amendment to the Constitution before establishing Obamacare, constitutionally clueless President Eisenhower had likewise failed to encourage Congress to petiton the states for the required constitutional authority to build the nation's highways.

In fact, President James Madison had chewed out Congress for trying to fund roads and canals to carry freight without the constitutional authority to do so. With the exception of postal roads, Madison had noted that Congress's Section 8, Article I-limited powers say nothing about roads and canals in the context of moving freight.

Veto of federal public works bill

Note that even conservative hero Ronald Reagan was arguably clueless about Congress's Section 8-limited powers.

FDR really nuked the federal government's constitutonally limited powers. But it also doesn't help matters when parents don't make sure that their children are taught the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood.

[Farnsworth]

Yeah, it’s the aorta of Texas for sure. Don’t think it likely, it’s where all those NAFTA Mexican trucks travel, so Obama ain’t going to close it down, it carries to many undocumented democratic voters.

[Farnsworth]

As I told one person that replied to me, I-35 in Texas carries to many undocumented Democrats, so Obama ain't going to shut that down!

[Daffynition]

Hussein will try to starve us. How are we goin' to find our evenin' fixins'?

[foreverfree]

Apparently the FED has also shut down the Atlantic Ocean somewhere in FL. Heard it this morning on the way to work from a local Talk Radio guy. No fishing and no Charters. the FED will be patrolling. The reference was a Breitbart article but I haven’t seen it.

Search engines are your best friends...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/05/Feds-Try-to-Close-the-OCEAN-Because-of-Shutdown

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