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@matthewstoller: 1. This is a holy $&$#& story of corruption and threats from Amazon, where their head lobbyist was caught on tape. First, the small stuff. It shows Amazon regularly buys off academics, in this case...…
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.