-> I don't know about the percentages but I do know that
-> the biggest chuck of money is based on the number of
-> miles of NEW roads being built and almost none of it is
-> for repair of existing ones.  That's why you see new
-> roads being built while dodging pot holes on the road
-> you are using now.
RG> Actually, it's the other way around.  Money is regularly
RG> allocated back to the States and the States build new roads
RG> with it rather then fix the existing infrastructure.  Our
Ahhh. . .Isn't that what I just said?  ;)
-> Sometimes I think we should do away with all highway
-> taxes and make every road in the US a toll road.  You
-> use, you pay for it.  Why should you pay road tax for
-> the gas you are using in your chain saw or lawn mower?
RG> They tried that up here and the public went nuts.  We have
Notice I said "sometimes".  Besides being publicly
unpopular its totally impractical.  You'd have to have
toll booths every where and people to build, man and
repair them.  Then you have the large amounts of time
that would be lost on each trip, having to stop and pop
a dollar into the toll machine.
                      Remember:  Freedom isn't Free!
--- timEd-B11
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