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Huh. There's a movement afoot to end the federal gas tax and pass the responsibility of funding highway improvements off to individual states.

Posted by Strongbad (aka Rambler14) Sep 13 '11, 10:07

I hadn't really thought of that before.
Not sure what I think.

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I'm getting tired of this slow process. Why don't we just proceed to total anarchy? -- nm - crash davis Sep 13, 10:15 4
- feudalism isn't anarchy, crash. it's the perfect system. -- nm - Max Sep 13, 10:15 3
  - Yep -- nm - Epiphany Sep 13, 10:26
  - okay, you're right. We could have good barons as well as bad barons -- nm - crash davis Sep 13, 10:16 1
    - and good mouse guards as well as bad mouse guards. -- nm - Max Sep 13, 10:20
In that context terminating thousands of teachers and state employees makes sense because they wouldn't be able to drive to work anyway. Perfect! -- nm - Max Sep 13, 10:12
awesome. NC has one of the higher gas taxes and some of the worst roads. It's rediculous. -- nm - sycor Sep 13, 10:11 1
- NC is a huge donor state. Averaging 82.7% return since 1956. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 10:23
We use the highways to get all our stuff. Let's please not mess with that. -- nm - con_carne Sep 13, 10:11
It's been around for a while from the folks that want to kill the Education department. - spamlet (iPhone) Sep 13, 10:09
we should totally do with a national military. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 13, 10:09
I'll tell you what'll happen.....highway disrepair, higher state taxes and gas will cost about the same - Will Hunting Sep 13, 10:09
interesting. - znufrii Sep 13, 10:09 2
- *shrug* Here's a bill that was mentioned in the same article. -- (link) - Strongbad Sep 13, 10:11 1
  - huh. this one keeps the interstate system in federal hands, but defederalizes the numbered highway system. - znufrii Sep 13, 10:17
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- The donor states would likely support it. They wouldn't have to settle for 85% of their revenue being returned. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 13, 10:09 1
  - Here's the data. -- (link) - Strongbad Sep 13, 10:22
that's a bad idea. bad. -- nm - Remlik Sep 13, 10:09

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Huh. There's a movement afoot to end the federal gas tax and pass the responsibility of funding highway improvements off to individual states.

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