[1rudeboy]

Funny how the gas tax money rolls in but can not be spent on improving roads unless it is spent improving roads to be made into toll roads.

Funnier that the thing conservatives dreamed of in the 1980's, privatizing non-essential governmental functions, is now itself a source of humor for ostensible conservatives.

[Stat-boy]

"Funnier that the thing conservatives dreamed of in the 1980's, privatizing non-essential governmental functions, is now itself a source of humor for ostensible conservatives."

If private companies were buying land and building roads, great. More power to them, and I would hope they make as much money possible.

However, what we have here is private companies (a) buying the right to run a monopoly for 50 years[once a toll road is built, even a government entity cannot build new roads that would compete with the toll road] and (b) using the power of the government to acquire land.

[Hydroshock]

Roads are considered by many to be essential. The problem is nto money it is that fact that over 10 billion dollars over teh past ten years of gas tax money that was supposed to pay for roads has bee redirected to other projects in the state budget.