mrstickball said:
Thats generally the mantra of the Tea Party. Less federal government, and more state power. If you are unfamiliar with mass transit in America, it is a boondoggle. I understand it works in countries such as Europe, but due to population densities, most systems incur significant losses. For example, the government has been covering Amtrack's losses for decades, costing taxpayers billions of dollars a year in what amounts to nothing more than subsidies. States are the ones that invest in infrastructure. Each state has its own gas tax, and is directly responsible for administration of roads, and their populace. |
Let me just inform you what Texas does for their road construction. They use tax payer money to build new highways / expand existing highways. They then turn them into toll roads and sell them to private companies/governments (Spanish company I think owns most). So basically the citizens are taxed two times. They are taxed to build the road and then taxed to use the road which the money goes out of country to a foreign business. Does that sound like good road management to you?
I won't even address mass transportation. I can understand a private company spending their own money building a road/highway then having it a toll road. I can't understand using US tax payer money to build roads/highways then selling them to foreign companies to turn into toll roads. I want your views on state's selling their highways to foreign companies after building them with US tax payer money.
