Here’s a novel idea; how about using gas taxes to actually fix roads, instead of building lightrail boondoggles and bullet trains to nowhere?
So will the interstate highway system now become the intra state highway system?
Yeah, I agree. No bias there...
While I agree that the states should be in charge, this is merely the federal government dumping it back on the states because they think it’s going to become such a stinkeroo they want no part of it.
Now watch the states create toll roads by the thousands, or sell the rights to highways to foreign nationals in mass.
This sounds like a decidedly unconservative idea; I don’t see how this will stop the Fed from attaching strings to the funding much as they do now and use it to pressure states. Better to eliminate federal funding obligations for infrastructure maintenance, and the administrative overhead associated, and just let the “states” (e.g. taxpayers) keep the money to spend as they see fit.
It's completely ridiculous to have a federal gas tax and then dole the money back out to the states. Let the states collect it, or at least block-grant the money back to them.
two words:
Flying Cars!
It’s flipping 2014, where’s my flying car?
During the Energy Crisis and gas shortage in the early 1970’s, the Feds passed an Alternative Fuel Tax, under the guise of developing alternative fuels. To date, not ONE DROP of alternative fuel has been produced but the tax is still on the books. Wonder where that money went?
I say we make the leaches who are driving electric cars pay a dollar per mile fee to cover their costs for using the roads that are built and maintained using gasoline taxes.
The highway is where we used to find freedom and anonymity, I hope they don’t make it a fee based privilege.
Excellent ideas.
They are trying their damnest to turn our freeways into TOLL ROADS, and they probably will succeed, soon, because conservatives are TOO STUPID to realize that tolling raises at least TEN TIMES as much revenue as a gas tax. And nearly all of that extra money will either go to FOREIGN COMPANIES which will buy the roads, or to higher prior “inner city” projects that have NOTHING TO DO with roads.
But, like I said, conservatives are TOO STUPID to realize any of this, so it will likely get approved soon.
Maybe the failure to agree on how to maintain our highways is designed to reduce the use of private vehicles. I know a lot of them want us using more public transportation.
They're all crooks.