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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So Congress is working on a highway bill that envisions more toll booths on interstate highways. Meanwhile, the gas tax, the major source of federal funding for highways, hasn't gone up in a decade.
I would much rather pay for highways through a gas tax than at tolls. Tolls are just irritating. Why is Congress doing this? Is gas tax money being used to pay for non-highway projects? Tolls can raise a lot of money* -- is Congress looking to raise money through tolls because there is such opposition to taxes?
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I agree with you. Although I understand the theoretical economic argument for tolls (making the actuall users of the resource pay for it) in reality they suck. I prefer the Gas tax also. But clearly I am biased because I am a user of the resource. How about cutting all corporat subsidies, farm subsidies and export subsidies and using that money for the highways?
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop * Read The Power Broker, about Robert Moses. The key to Moses' power for decades was his control over the spigot of money from toll bridges into and out of Manhattan.
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On the subject of Caro - when is he coming out with the fourth book on the Johnson series? I am sick of waiting for him to finish the series.
