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Posted on 01/16/2010 2:47:27 PM PST by Dubya
How funny is that....she played on the show Cavemen based on the Geico cavemen commercials.
A GPS system would be great. This way they could just email you a ticket every time you speed. (For your safety) The cops could broadcast a kill code to slow or stop your vehicle (for your safety).
Insurance companies could adjust your rate (upward) based on your individual behavior.
Cops could recognize your vehicle as high risk since it just drove down a street that is known for selling crack or was parked in a bar parking lot for the last four hours.
Perry is a pretty good gov. He floated the idea of using privatized highway to the people, and they rejected it. He knew then, as now that TX.DOT is short of money. I don’t think he would want a mileage tax, either. What is the solution? The same people that whine about EVERY tax will be the first to whine when the highways become impassable.I am opposed to any kind of mileage tax, but i am wondering how Texas is going to keep up it’s highway system. We have a LOT of roads in ill repair.
I’m afraid Medina will just be a spoiler. And most/all candidates cannot back up what they say when they say they are going to drastically cut spending. They can say they will TRY to cut spending, but when they haven’t held that office and say they ARE going to cut spending, I start thinking liar.Cutting spending is a catch 22 if there ever was one. It’s easy to claim that a state can be run on nickles and dimes until you actually have to do it. I like Medina’s language,too, but for now, I’m sticking with Rick Perry.
That is a good question. Texas has a lot of roads in a large state. A responsible Gov. will lay out the options to the people.
1. Do nothing. Let the roads deteriorate. When the bridges get into bad enough shape, shut them down and close the road.
2. Start an income tax to raise income (If I was from Texas I’D go to war to STOP that from ever happening!)
3. Sales tax to raise money for the roads
4. Toll roads around major cities to produce funds for highway maintenance
5. A rather novel and somewhat extreme idea — privatize some of the state roads
6. Force state gov’t to sell off the millions of acres they own to pay for road upgrades
7. Just petition to rejoin Mexico where your roads will fit right in shortly...
Ok, maybe not the last one — but creative and intelligent people CAN figure some of these issues out — if the doggone politicians would get out of their way!
Hey! I live in SA... not everybody drives poorly!! :) We’re just in a damn rush to get out of here on the weekends! Love NB...ride my bicycle up there every so often. Backroads of course.
but for now, I’m sticking with Rick Perry.
Am about the same on spoiler concern, KBH seemed to be trying to play on that during the debate.
I think you can see a certain look in someones eyes, especially if they’re trying to sell you something and in the debate Medina had the most sincere look of the 3. She also sounded like she has been studying all this for some time as was very knowledgable and appeared very straight-forward unlike Rick or KBH who had to do a lot of hemin and hawin.
Governor ain’t rocket science, all one has to do is be knowledgable, understand human nature and stand your ground. If the voters are solid behind a Governor, the legislature won’t buck him or her. A lot of the waste is simply because none of the politicians have applied common sense and keep trying to manipulate.
Thanks and that is funny. I never saw any of those. I thought
that ‘person’ was a VIP for progressive.
Got to be a dim. IMHO
Did you see this?
How can a state so well known for its independent-minded people even have any politicians thinking such a big brother scheme would ever be accepted by the people they SERVE?
Very good, right on. That was quite a morning show that day, they were fired up and I was shouting at the radio, or dash, or windshield, whatever would listen...
I had the distinct pleasure of wiping a booger on his chair when I was a six year old... I knew I was a Republican at an early age...
Exactly. They've been stealing highway money for years to fund a never ending list of projects, not to mention the bottomless pit called "public education".
If road taxes actually were spent on roads, we wouldn't have this problem.
You don't think they'd implement this without including GPS as well do you? Imagine the bonanza for the police state that will be.
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exactly how they f***ing wasted the taxpayers' money to get them into this f***ing mess.
It was translated from the writer’s native Spanish.
The only law they can't evade: The Law of Unintended Consequences.
It's very similar to the punitive taxes on the smoker, supposedly going to nice cookies-and-ice cream causes like Education. The smokers quit or smoke less, and now Education suffers. The obvious answer for the government is to encourage smokers in every way possible, short of decreasing their taxes.
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