I obviously have some libertarian leaning views but this is my favorite to defend.
"What about the roads?!"
"Oh the ones full of potholes, riddled with traffic, and the shoulder covered in litter? The free ones that you already pay car sales tax, insurance tax, license tax, registration tax, DOT tax for the road maintenance, and the breaking road rules tax? Those roads?"
Slush funds. The federal gas tax is supposed to be used to provide the funding to maintain the interstate system. As we can see, that's obviously insufficient.
It's really hard to evaluate any of this without having a good accounting team do a full audit of the system and find out where the money's being spend. The federal government is now so large, we really don't have much of an idea where the money's going. It's just giant slush funds for a bloated, unelected, and nearly completely unaccountable bureaucracy to play with.
but but but muhh roaddddsssss
I obviously have some libertarian leaning views but this is my favorite to defend.
"What about the roads?!"
"Oh the ones full of potholes, riddled with traffic, and the shoulder covered in litter? The free ones that you already pay car sales tax, insurance tax, license tax, registration tax, DOT tax for the road maintenance, and the breaking road rules tax? Those roads?"
All those road related taxes, but they never seem to have the funding to fix a road... Interesting.
Slush funds. The federal gas tax is supposed to be used to provide the funding to maintain the interstate system. As we can see, that's obviously insufficient.
It's really hard to evaluate any of this without having a good accounting team do a full audit of the system and find out where the money's being spend. The federal government is now so large, we really don't have much of an idea where the money's going. It's just giant slush funds for a bloated, unelected, and nearly completely unaccountable bureaucracy to play with.