How much will this cost us?
The Feds are proposing to allow states to toll more interstates.We already pay state and federal gas taxes for these roads.Can you imagine how much more this could cost us to go camping since we would...
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Chris Bryant wrote:
The problem is we don't pay enough to maintain the roads. I'm not a fan of the plan, but TANSTAAFL. The $ (Trillions of dollars needed) has to come from somewhere.
You are very wrong.. The problem is we pay through the nose already with state and federal taxes in various forms including fuel taxes.
Politicians pocket far too much of this money, and then, once they let a little of it slip past their sticky fingers they have rules in place that PROHIBIT things like unannounced quality control testing of the concrete. (Michigan did a test,, On one stretch of road they took NO federal money.. They then did do frequent unannounced quality testing, Made sure the company used the proper grade of concrete,, Worked too, section of road outlasted all the federally funded projects).
Next: Often the job is not given to the lowest bidder, but the highest campaign contributor...
in short, it is not how little we pay, but how much of what we pay is spent FRAUDULENTLY.
That is the real problem.. FRAUD. NOTE: This applies to nearly all governmental programs.... Remember the Space Shuttle that blew up on take off back in the 1980's.. Well the part that failed was not the lowest bidder, but a higher bidder from a key congressional district,, The lowest bidder was a Michigan Company that had a design that very simply would not have failed in that manner. For the part that failed... Did not exist in the Michigan design.