Switching from a gas tax to tolls doesn’t necessarily make driving more expensive, switching to private freeways would be cheaper given the huge amount of pork/graft built into federal and state transportation projects. In college road crew jobs were the best, because federal law required you be paid union wages, even…

Im fine with eliminating gas taxes, and switching to toll roads. Not only would private freeways be cheaper to build and maintain, but has side benefits of making alternate transportation more attractive,

It’s not the harbinger of doom, it’s good news for a near useless organization. Maybe we can finally force some substantial reform at the UN. Countries run by thugs and dictators not be allowed to vote, let alone allowed to control the UN Human Rights commission.

Except people are willing to pay to drive cars. Amtrak can’t pay its own way.

In 2014 total federal, state and local gas taxes were about $75B. Which should be close to enough except 40% typically gets diverted to other programs.

i thought he was best known for his chippiness on the mound?

190 years old but still so crappy they need subsidies.

Mass Transit historically was able to cover its costs, until it became publicly run. And highways aren’t subsidized, drivers pay massive amounts of gas taxes to fund them, money that’s partially diverted to failures like light rail.

Investing in 200 year old technology a fraction the speed of air travel isn’t infrastructure, it’s pork.

Hopefully. The USPS is goimg out of business either way.  

And wasted the money either way.

That’s what she said.

I also pledge to be nice to black people if I’m given $175M in public money. I’ll let them clean my pool, wash my cars, etc. Whatever it takes to heal this country!

Yep Assad was a very peaceful tyrant, just like Saddam and Ghadafi.

The hawaiian royal family were butchers who had captured peoples either tortured to death or enslaved and sacrificed.

American indians butchered the original native americans and took their lands.

His most impressive attribute is his willingness to take any fight on a moments notice, which is why Dana loved him.

This is so dumb, I make more that $1,500 a week and my employer doesn’t withhold. I’m independent contractor and that’s what babysitters should be considered.

That technology doesn’t exist.

That technology doesn’t exist.