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Originally Posted by 30to66at55
Why don't they just take our whole paycheck.
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That would be stupid.
Better would be to take 99.999999% and then tease people.
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Originally Posted by thecoalman
Our infrastructure is crumbling, it's the fuel tax that pays for that infrastructure and as mentioned it hasn't been increased since the 90's. I'll support an increase as long as 100% of it is going to fix roads and bridges and they address taxing vehicles like electric cars that are paying nothing.
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We could use an Exit Ramp to Nowhere and a personal bridge for everyone.
The Generation Y-Bots are entitled to their own personal private bridge maintained for "free", aren't they?
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Originally Posted by ringwise
I thought the trillion dollar stimulus was supposed to go towards infrastructure?
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It did....those aren't pot-holes, those are high tech suspension testers.
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Originally Posted by thecoalman
At this point in time Ferd you have an Interstate system built in the 60's and 70's. The cost for the bridges alone that are past their lifetime is astronomical.
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Originally Posted by thecoalman
None of that changes the fact wee need huge sums of money to repair infrastructure that has been neglected for decades.
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That's illogical.
It was the entire idiotic system created by the illegal-national-government-pretending-to-be-a-federal government that resulted in neglected infrastructure in the first place.
Here's a perfect analogy:
You let a skid-mark scrubber at the hospital cut on your eyeballs....now you're totally blind.....and now you want the skid-mark scrubber to fix the mistakes they made during eye-ball surgery.
How's that going to work out?
Well, it's going to be a massive fail.
The janitor shouldn't have been doing eye surgery in the first place....he was out of his lane....violated his union contract.....doing something he shouldn't have been doing and wasn't qualified to do.
Same with government.
If the government wants to build a transportation system to move military troops, military vehicles and materiel, fine.
If the government wants to allow civilians to use the system during times of non-emergency, that's fine, too.
But the minute the system became obsolete.....and that was in 1965...specifically to wit after the Battle of Ia Drang, it was time for the government to give it up and turn it over to the States.
The fact that it continues to collect the federal excise tax on gasoline and then dole it out as though it were some kind of benevolent god-thing is disgusting.
I'm guessing you all forgot your tyrannical government used the tax money to extort and coerce States to adopt seat-belt laws and raise the drinking age and change the laws regarding drunk driving, by threatening to withhold it if the States didn't bow down and do what almighty government told them to do.
I'm not seeing in the Constitution where it says the federal government can coerce States.
Anyway, your entire system is obsolete.
It's in disrepair because the federal government didn't do its job, because The Stupid® didn't do their job at the polls.
You don't have the money.
You need $3.5 TRILLION for your obsolete electrical grid, and $2.2 TRILLION for your interstate highway system.....as of 2012. I'm sure those figures are much higher now, not that it matters, because you don't have the money.
You need $5 TRILLION for Social Security...you ain't got....you need $1.5 TRILLION for Medicare and you ain't got that.
You don't have the money for private pension funds, and you don't have the money for government pension funds.
And I'll tell you the fly in the ointment: Right-of-Way.
You see, in order to repair and replace these bridges and entrance/exit ramps, it is required that they meet the new standards in effect, which engineers to refer to as "geometry." So, you're looking at approach geometry for bridges, and then also for any exit or entrance ramp connected to the interstate within a certain distance of the bridge.
The approach geometry standards may require the bridge to be re-aligned, subsequently causing the approach to be realigned (or vice versa), and that may effect entrance/exit ramps, and that means Right-of-Way is needed, and that means Eminent Domain, and lots of legal action and delays and cost over-runs and cost increases.
Some communities of course asking,
"Do we really need these entrance/exit ramps?" and that raises environmental, political, social and economic issues.
If the Boy-King™ had heeded my advice years ago....and shifted 85% of your freight from over-the-road trucks to rail, you would now have an unemployment rate of 5%-6% with 5 Million new good paying jobs, and you could reduce the size of your highway infrastructure, which means it would cost less to replace/upgrade, and then future costs would be less as well, not to mention all of the benefits including the fact that highways would last longer, requiring less frequent repair, saving even more money.
You all need to start making hard choices, and if you don't, can't or won't, then the Laws of Economics will make those choices for you, and you're not gonna like it one bit.
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Record number of Americans draining retirement accounts
June 14, 2014, 7:16 AM|A record number of Americans are risking their financial futures by making early withdrawals from their retirement accounts. CBS MoneyWatch personal financial advisor Ray Martin joins “CBS This Morning: Saturday” with more on this disturbing trend.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/record...ment-accounts/
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Originally Posted by greywar
Gas prices have gone down the last three years.
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Prove it....we already know that won't happen.
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Originally Posted by greywar
Or do you mean not counting for inflation?
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You don't even know what "Inflation" is.
Economically....
Mircea
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