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- From: speednut@werple.apana.org.au (Mark Jose)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Roads and Taxes (was Re: NEWS: True Costs of )
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:36:10 +1100
- Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
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- Original Message From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
-
- >So Americans are getting slightly less screwed that the poor SOBs in
- >the other G7 nations. This begs the old question asked by mothers
- >everywhere, "If all your friends jump off a cliff, do you have to
- >jump too?"
-
- True enough. Unless there is some model system out there that proves
- your system is "crap" then why change.
-
- >>2) Your infrastructure is knackered
- >
- >Only in the liberal welfare state Northeast. Down here in Georgia
- >we have both the lowest taxes *and* the best roads. That's because
- >we don't let the Legislature get their sticky fingers on the gas
- >tax money. It's mandated by law to go *directly* to the State DOT
- >which in our state is essentially a totally autonomous body that
- >doesn't answer to the Legislature. They are a professional group
- >of highway engineers, not politicians.
-
- I wish our legislated "petrol taxes & excises" were all directed to
- the maintenance of roads. What we have instead is a bunch of
- politicians who are allowed to redirect the vast majority of the
- money towards consolidated revenue - money that never finds its way to
- the roads or highways.
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