America's roads are awful!!

lakeside013104 wrote:

rk911 wrote:

jfkmk wrote:

wildtoad wrote:
The problem is people complain about the roads, schools, and other tax funded entities but don’t want to pay for them.

Actually, the problem is we already pay very high taxes for the things, and the money gets squandered instead of wisely used.

bingo!

So much truth to the statements above. Our country's infrastructure is crumbling.

The Highway Trust Fund is a transportation fund in the United States which receives money from a federal fuel tax of 18.4 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon of diesel fuel and related excise taxes.

In Maine the state adds their share to the fuel taxes to make buying a gallon of gasoline or diesel have about 44 cents (+) worth of taxes in the street price.

If these taxes were used for the repair of our roads, a person might not be forced to drive over rough highways every time they drive about. The majority of monies collected just never seem to be applied to the repaving or improvements to our highways. There is always another bond issue to be voted on to approve more funding for road maintenance. There are serious problems with who has control of spending our highway taxes on projects other than highways.

The fox is in the hen house and has been for decades.

Lakeside