Road builders want 15-cent gas tax hike

The Hill ^ | March 12, 2015 | Keith Laing

[bgill]

One in 8 people in America are illegal. Send them packing and there will be less road usage resulting in less road damage. Problem solved.

[familyop]

"Fine....only if they start building roads that DON’T use asphalt. Concrete roads last 70 years in New England."

Interesting. I'm setting and testing tiny samples of soil cement mixes for a shed foundation now (high elevation, extreme cold climate: a challenge with added measures of prevention against harsh conditions). Soil cement has been used as a base for roads, levies and other construction in many locations.

[dennisw]

The Federal gov’t is the least deserving of our taxes. It was not always like this. But these days it is a hiring hall for loser liberals and affirmative action babies of all stripes. WASHINGTON DC is a black hole that sucks money out of the states. Don’t forget all the contractors that feed at the Federal trough. Some are valid but too many are just machines for wasting money on liberal do gooder schemes

If I was able to chose where my taxes go next year they would go to state and county and zero for the Federales

[Axenolith]

Preach on brother!

[GeronL]

If they got their way the price of roads per mile would double too.

[familyop]

“Rent-seeking parasites.”

"Ii makes more sense on “circle of life” terms to see them as predators, not parasites.

We may not like that relationship, but no one cares about the opinions of prey animals."

I agree with Paine. When those vain and false-accusing folks who so highly regard themselves as predators realize that recirculating debt/revenues in a rent-seekers' regime can no longer be taken from the largely unemployed private sector, they can only feed on the blood of their own kind.

The situation is already turning. The parasites shriek the names of parasite celebrities and other moronic noise at one another in political speech, while most of the waiting, watching private sector--desensitized by the decades of crimes perpetrated against it--no longer listens.

They eat recirculating debt/revenues as though such increasingly watered funds were an addictive drug, all the while believing themselves to be cognizant. The interesting part of the default process is coming.

[DH]

OH BOY!

With that extra money they can now hire at least 5 more men to watch a single worker dig a hole.