Transportation Panel screams for more money to waste

In order to make it sound good "Would you pay an extra 66 cents a day for less traffic, better public transit and fewer people dying on highways?"
Yea right. The transportation panel is urging a 40 cent per gallon tax increase over 5 years to "fix the aging infrastructure".
Now they claim the avg motorist would only pay 41-66 cents a day more. What they won't say is that the avg truck will pay 8.20-13.20 more a day.
Yea.. I know you people are screaming so what. Thats a small price to pay for the roads you tear up. But, guess what. We already pay 12,000.00 plus every year in taxes for the highways.
Granted republicans are saying that this "don't stand a snowballs chance in hell of passing" but with the dumocrats in control of congress I won't hold my breath. I personally think they would have more money if they just controlled spending on what they get instead of raising a tax to acquire more money to waste on some other crappy social program. Cause lets face it. How much money that is raised for the highway system actually gets spent on the highway system? 65% of it gets eaten up with all the red tape crap already. Then I would guess another 30% gets transfered to pay for some gay a$$ social program that some dumocrat thought up to get more votes. And the 3% of whats left goes into the pocket of whom ever offers the biggest bribe to grant them the contract so they can overcharge the government by 80% to collect the other 2%, then fix the road just well enough that they need to be re approved the next year to fix it again. Anyone else see the problem with this whole scenario?
So what is a solution to our highway system?
It really isn't that difficult to figure out. Put the money collected for the highway system into the highway system. Hire companies that build a road to last more then 10 minutes. Perhaps call some engineers from Germany to teach them how to build a road. Don't see the Autobahn needing repair every other day. So yes you spend a little more for it up front. But you aren't pouring another 20 million into it the following year at a higher price then it was the year before.
Suddenly you have a infrastructure that will last. You didn't raise taxes because you took the money you were giving to Bertha to have her 15 bastard children and eat steak while feeding their 6 dogs ground chuck (food stamps don't buy dog food) and living in an apartment that is subsidized so she only pays 50 dollars a month for a 13 room house while the government picks up the rest of the 1500.00 a month tab. But lets keep in mind that the dumocrat that promised her all this free ride is still getting her vote. Okay I have digressed. Sorry.
Back on topic, if they eliminate the waste and red tape I am sure there is plenty of funds. If it wasn't for all that the roads wouldn't be in the shape they are in.
Of course in their report (this commission has to be comprised of dumocrats) they claim that not passing the "Gas tax" risks "tens of thousands of highway casualties each year". Hey want to reduce that? jam cell phones in cars so they don't work! But the evidence of dumocrat influence is all over this. Comments like "We don't want to see the transportation system to see the same fate of the New Orleans Levees." "A failure to act will be catastrophic to this nation". etc. Scare tactics again and again.
However on a positive note there appears to be some reason in this commission. The commissions chairwoman Mary Peters criticized the proposal saying it would send millions of dollars to Washington to end up (with the rest of the highway funds) as political pork. Good for her! However she is also supporting the privatization of highways and toll roads. Which on new roads I don't care. But on exisiting highways I think they should be off limits to privatization.
I guess we shall have to wait and see. Either way I am sure the dumocrats will find a way to raise our expenses which is as Rep. Charles Grassley put it a "fast lane to a recession".

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