[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[17th Miss Regt]

that puts more restrictions on how pubic-private partnerships can be established.

Did the original article state this? If so, where are the editors?

[Leaning Right]

So Pennsylvania can’t pay for bridge repair. Maybe Pennsylvania should declare itself to be part of Ukraine. Then all sorts of money would flow its way.

[Vigilanteman]

And I would like to vacation on a 150’ yacht if I could just find a way to get somebody else to pay for it.

[Qui is]

Why not take some money from the gubmint union pension funds? Worked out well for the mob and the teamsters union. That’s how they built Las Vegas.

[ConservativeInPA]

How about cutting all the socialist spending in the budget and actually using the gas tax for it’s original intent? It’s obvious that PennDot is filled with morons and lazy ass unionized employees (aka bridge sitters - you see the sitting at every road construction site instead of working) These lazy asses need to unemployed and forced to work in the private sector. The days of permanent government employment and no fear of layoffs needs to end. These eff’n lazy asses didn’t lose their jobs during COVID shutdowns even though they sat on their lazy asses and surfed porn from home. They are the problem. Wait until unemployment kicks in this autumn. They need to pay the price, not hardworking Pennsylvanians.

[eyeamok]

This is Easy to fix:

Issue an Executive Order mandating ALL public employee’s in the State, immediately enroll in Obamacare and purchase their own health insurance. Use the money save to pay for the Bridge Replacements.

As an added bonus you could also mandate all government vehicle exclusively be Green and All Electric and use the funds no longer spent on planet destroying fossil fuels, be used for road repair.

[Spok]

Too many politicians siphoning off the public treasury to actually be able to take care of the infrastructure. It’s a problem everywhere. In my city, the public rejected building a new coliseum by referendum. Now we have three but the streets still don’t get fixed.

[Amendment10]

"It just has to find another way to pay for the work now that adding tolls of $1 or $2 per vehicle is off the table."

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If Pennsylania and Texas led ALL the states to effectively "secede" from the unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments (16&17A), thus putting a stop to 16A-related unconstitutional federal taxes, then the following would happen imo.

• "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.

• Texas Republicans Call For TEXIT Vote With 90% In Favor (7.6.22)

All the states would ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues (imo) that the states could not only use to replace infrastructure like Pennsylvania wants to do, but also increase teacher, police and fire department salaries for starters.

Patriots need to start working with their prospective new, Trump-endorsed state MAGA lawmakers to repeal 16&17A.

Insights welcome.

[brianl703]

Pennsylvania just has too damn many bridges.

They should be like Virginia, where a 36-mile round trip to go around a closed bridge is typical.

[T.B. Yoits]

PennDOT can’t close the bridges because you don’t want to know what will happen in the hills when the locals are no longer connected to civilization.

[BiteYourSelf]

So,what happened to all the gas tax money. (That’s a rhetorical question by the way)🙄

[yelostar]

A number of these partnerships entered into by various states are with foreign companies. Don’t American companies build bridges?