Road Taxes for Roads?
What a absolutely radical idea! According to this report, Fred Smith, if elected governor of North Carolina, will actually use money that is collected via taxes for building roads to -- wait for it -- BUILD ROADS! This man is clearly a serious radical.
For decades now, the Democrats (who have controlled the North Carolina state government for LITERALLY over 100 years -- the Republicans have NEVER, ever, in all recorded history had a majority in the Senate) have been collecting money from things like gas taxes and motor vehicles taxes. When these laws were passed, the reason the taxes were placed on those vehicles was to pay for roads. However, the Democrats just didn't want to build roads. Instead, they decided they wanted to, well, basically just give the money to their friends. They have been taking billions from the highway and roads funds and putting it in the "general" budget. If you've driven on any roads in North Carolina in the past 10 years, you can see the effect this has. Fred Smith, who is running for governor, says that he's had enough. He says that money collected from taxes to build roads should be used to build roads. I just can't grasp the concept. Here in North Carolina, we just don't need roads. After all, according to mayor Pat McCrory, building a big train set will solve all the world's problems. But hey, maybe if you support building roads (and repairing the pothole ridden things we have now), perhaps you should think about supporting Fred Smith for governor.
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Don't get me started on trains. Here in the Twin Cities, we have one train line that cost almost $1 Billion, and have approved another that is expected to cost about $1.5 Billion. Yeah, BILLION, that's not a typo.
A single lane mile of road will move more people than a track mile - every time. The only exception in the United States is in New York City. And roads cost only a small fraction of what trains cost.
A single lane mile of road will move more people than a track mile - every time. The only exception in the United States is in New York City. And roads cost only a small fraction of what trains cost.
Posted by: Echo Zoe at October 26, 2007 05:39 PM (nIDjA)
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Expected to cost $1.5 billion? Then it will cost AT LEAST $6 billion.
Trains are NOT build to reduce congestion. They've even stopped lying about that here. Now they're just going to build them because they started. And when Charlotte trains were in planning, it was supposed to cost around $200 million. We're over $1 billion already and they're not 1/3 done.
Trains are NOT build to reduce congestion. They've even stopped lying about that here. Now they're just going to build them because they started. And when Charlotte trains were in planning, it was supposed to cost around $200 million. We're over $1 billion already and they're not 1/3 done.
Posted by: Ogre at October 26, 2007 05:49 PM (oifEm)
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Of course Fred Smith wants to spend more money on transportation! Now I agree that the annual transfer of $170 million from the High Trust Fund to the General Fund should be stopped. But how hard is it for Fred Smith to agree with me when he stands to personally benefit [financially]? Please note that he is the CEO of C.C. Mangum Company which was the primary contractor for adding lanes to I-40 in RTP and is scheduled to lay over 250,000 tons of asphalt in the I-540 project. All three Republican candidates for governor oppose the yearly transfer - Bill Graham and Bob Orr have officially stated their opposition to it - but Fred Smith is the only one who stands to make money from doing so.
Posted by: Tom Paine at October 27, 2007 04:59 PM (Jox57)
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THat's interesting. I didn't know that!
Posted by: Ogre at October 28, 2007 07:31 PM (2WD8n)
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thanks...
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