Lots of ways -end handouts to Illegals and the able-bodied, stop subsidizing abortions, claw back some of remittances like other countries do
Aren’t federal and state gasoline taxes supposed to pay for building and upkeep of highways?
Stop spending on nonessential things.
By the way 20 year cost estimates for road expansion are very likely very wrong.
No toll roads and no selling our freeways to foreign nations for a quick cash fix.
Just sell more cars and the roads will take care of themselves.
Quit spending road money on thug mobility systems, bike paths and other silliness. Spend it actually on roads. Toll roads are never the correct answer.
If cities feel that they need toll roads in the their city, provide a free, quick bypass for people passing through so we don’t have to 1) pay for your nonsense 2) can avoid your homies 3) can avoid your congestion. There are no big cities that I seek to go to as a destination. They are just obstacles I have to get through to go someplace else.
How about if we begin by deporting anyone who is in Texas illegally. Seems to me that that would lighten our traffic congestion a lot. Wonder if all the money we pay in gas taxes does, indeed, go to repair and maintenance of our roads or if it goes into the general revenue fund and is used for other purposes like other states seem to do.
Let me guess...the money from gas taxes went to pensions, illegals and slush funds?
I’ll only take a toll road on the return trip home from work. That’s only if I have to get home before 1830. Not worth the $6-8 one way cost to go 14-15 mile. Traffic still bottlenecks on the non toll road. At those prices, you can see why
User Fees.
if you use the road, you pay, if you don’t, you don’t.
Those costs will trans-mogrify (wanted to use the accurate “trickle down” but didn’t want to start a pissing match) down to be re-couped from the final user/consumer of the delivered product or service.
Nothing is free, so stop passing it off as a “public benefit” or “common good”. National Highways in the model of Ike’s Autobahn is a luxury we can no longer afford.
If I ride a bike, I’m not paying directly for a highway. When I get things delivered to me, I will incur a fee from the provider that takes a user fee into account.
Developers pay to create access to their property. Builders pay to have mechanicals connected. Road users pay to have roads built.
Live in the middle of no-where? Build your own road and charge users.
Stop asking me to pay for YOUR benefit.
Ban “Blue State” immigrants...
How about stop building roads you can’t afford to maintain!
Federal funding provides a huge portion of new road finance but zero maintenance costs to not only the road but all the accompanying sewer, water, electrical, etc.
Politicians don’t care because they’ll be out of office by the time the bill for their projects hit home and the people are too stupid to know what the deal is, they’ve just been trained to think the solution is more and wider roads.
North Carolina actually has more paved roads than Texas.
They pay for them with high gas taxes.
Unconstitutional federal taxes are evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices, justices having clarified constitutional limits on the fed’s powers, including limited power to appropriate taxes.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons [emphasis added], our property, our reputation and religious freedom.” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped, then the individual states will probably find a tsunami of new revenues that they won't know what to do with (higher state taxes), Texas and the rest of the states being able to start their own healthcare programs, improve INTRAstate schooling, increase funding for police and fire departments, and repair infrastructure for starters.
Note that the consequences of revenue mismanagement in one state will hopefully be limited to taxpayers of that state.
On the other hand, probably most taxpayers have been oppressed by the consequences of gross mismanagement of “federal” revenues, again, such revenues arguably stolen state revenues.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
Add a tariff to sales of all energy products to blue states.
I’ve always wondered why they built Highway 130 “between Austin and San Antonio”.
It seemed like it was way out of the way on the way out in the middle of nowhere on the way to Houston just to get to Austin.
Where as the existing route on I35 va New Braunfels is much more direct and only takes like an hour. Im surprised a private company would engage in such a venture knowing it was so far out of the way of any real traffic. It looks like they didn’t do enough good research on the issue.
How much would it cost without corruption?
Abbott to D.C.: Stop sending our gas taxes to other states
"The days of Texans funding projects in Alaska, California and New York must come to an end," Abbott said.
Lemme guess what the solution is?
Toll roads with increases in cost every year.
The ability to track you every where you go.
Meanwhile the roads will not get repaired as the money will be diverted for pet projects just like happens in all other states.