What could be more fair than that?
http://heartland.org/sites/default/files/highway-trust-fund2.pdf
“The Life and Death of the Highway Trust Fund”
Return the power of infrastructure to the states.
If you like your transportation, you can keep your transportation.
Wasn’t porkulus supposed to go towards infrastructure? Have Obama and his people ever accounted for where that $800 plus billion dollars in porkukus money went?
While we have to devise some way to pay for roads, we must NEVER allow government to do so via GPS tracking of mileage. That will destroy the unalienable right of privacy of travel.
I am already seeing one thing that reall pisses me off to no end...turning many roadways Into toll zones using those damn license plate readers then sending you a bill at the end of the month. We already pay taxes for roadways! I undesrtand toll roads are set up to get you from Point A to Point B faster but what happens when they start turning ALL of the roadways into toll roads! I am seeing this a lot more often and its not right.
Probably part of the SAFE STREETS initiative or whatever the hell they call it that’s part of Agenda 21....
We should have a single payer system!
Transportation is a basic right!
All roads should be free! And without speed limits.
There will have to be some details worked out about older vehicles.
For the unfortunate members of society there should be 0bamacars.
Safe, environmentally and culturally sensitive. (No more Pintos or Ford Falcons or Chevy Novas...)
Auto insurance will be incorporated with 0bamacare.
Yes FREE car insurance!
Personally, I like that 0% financing for 72 months.
As long as you can beat the dealer down on the price of the car, too.
A few observations from somebody who occasionally works in the industry:
1. The roller coaster ride of funding at the state and federal level causes huge waste. For example, I recently did work on a project that had originally been designed circa 1996. A lot of stuff can change in that period of time, and a lot of stuff has to be re-done...which we have done...and now put the project back in the drawer for probably another decade before it gets dusted off again. Probably a half million has been spent on land acquisition and design for this project over a nearly 20 year span...and nothing has ever been built.
2. A lot of spending is on completely bogus nonsense. I once worked on a re-hab of an old train station into a museum - and it had federal highway money attached to it. That’s right - a museum.
3. A lot of federal highway money goes to roads that are not in our highway system at all. The government’s penchant to push things on the populace usually triggers this. If you see a roundabout or bike lane in a project, you can bet federal matching money was used to temp the local government into the project.
4. A lot of money goes to public transportation. Porkulus gave my city new buses, which were allegedly ‘cleaner’. But beyond that, federal money has recently bestowed my city with new bus stops - a glass enclosure and bench, along with new sidewalk in around a dozen locations. It gave us around $800k to do this...I assume that dozens and dozens of mid sized cities in the country with under-used bus service got similar grants.
5. The fix is in on construction worker wages. Two words: Davis Bacon.
I’ve really just scratched the surface. The waste is huge...and this could be much better managed if money were kept in state, instead of ‘washed’ through a federal juggernaut.
Roadway users should be charged by the Pound-Mile.
All that gas tax revenue is funding liberal pet projects such as walking/bicycle trails, mass transit, and hi-speed rail.
Now don't get me wrong, the idea behind what they are doing is one of which I approve, but the execution of that principal as a state monopoly has turned the system into a crooked racket with no accountability for function or success. Effectively, the way it is run now, these are government projects that unrelated government make-work projects.
They didn’t build that......