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Sissyk

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19. Here is a part of an article I found interesting.

Reply to Laelth (Reply #17)

Thu May 1, 2014, 04:54 PM

May 2014

Obama proposes to pay for the plan through a massive infusion of funds he envisions being created by corporate tax reforms. That new revenue that would augment the rapidly dwindling Highway Trust Fund, which gets most of its money from the federal gas tax.

The budget document released Tuesday fleshed out his vision. It emphasizes a fix-it-first approach that would give funding priority to salvaging existing roads, bridges and transit systems rather than expanding their network.

From here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/03/04/transportation-budget-seeks-revenue-for-rapidly-dwindling-highway-fund/

Also, read the article that started this "up in arms" postings today (from dixiegrrrl's thread). I don't think anyone really read it. Open the door for states is not the same thing as saying Obama is privatizing our roadways. lol!

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The Interstate Highway System was started [View all] MineralMan May 2014 OP

What's good for General Motors is good for the country FarCenter May 2014 #1

It was created for military necessity and created huge economic growth. lumberjack_jeff May 2014 #2

"It's broke" is a little dramatic. B2G May 2014 #3

They don't need to "get" the money, they already have it. lumberjack_jeff May 2014 #5

I'd be all for cutting foreign aid to pay for it. B2G May 2014 #8

Foreign aid spending is trivial. lumberjack_jeff May 2014 #23

32 billion a year is trivial?? nt B2G May 2014 #33

The economic growth would have happened anyway Spider Jerusalem May 2014 #4

How?? B2G May 2014 #6

By creating popular demand and political will for alternatives Spider Jerusalem May 2014 #9

There is no alternative to traveling to another state or B2G May 2014 #11

Well, not quickly, anyhow. But there are a number of cross-country routes MineralMan May 2014 #18

We use to have trains ... GeorgeGist May 2014 #24

We also used to have horses and buggies. nt B2G May 2014 #32

nonsense. lumberjack_jeff May 2014 #10

In the end, we all pay for it, one way or another. MineralMan May 2014 #7

Yep, you got it. nt B2G May 2014 #12

The United States lost, and by "lost" I mean "misplaced" as much money in Iraq lumberjack_jeff May 2014 #14

The military industrial complex also gets its money from us. MineralMan May 2014 #15

I don't think I'm lost. lumberjack_jeff May 2014 #16

We spend a ridiculous amount of money on military /nt think May 2014 #28

Not only that, Sissyk May 2014 #13

IF that's what the President is saying, fine. Laelth May 2014 #17

Here is a part of an article I found interesting. Sissyk May 2014 #19

I have to recant. Laelth May 2014 #20

I understand what you are saying, Laelth. Sissyk May 2014 #27

Did you mean to give me a link? Laelth May 2014 #29

Yes, that was what I intended to link to. Sissyk May 2014 #30

Thank you. Laelth May 2014 #31

I see a military advantage to single-payer health care ... JustABozoOnThisBus May 2014 #21

Send him an email. I have no idea. MineralMan May 2014 #22

Umm.....not quite entirely. AverageJoe90 May 2014 #25

Yeah, civilian firms built it under subcontract with the feds. It was a federal project, iirc. pinto May 2014 #26