RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| reply to SSidlov
Re: Internet2 is gov't funded & gov't should lease network
said by SSidlov  :The highway system in the US is falling apart and is always short of funds because it's based on trucking fees and gasoline taxes. While the non-toll road highways are only funded by these sources, the problem is that the funds collected by these taxes are treated as a slush fund due to not being DEDICATED to maintaining the highways (the same also may apply to Toll-Road revenues). In most cases, the majority of the funds collected gets diverted to the State's "General Fund" for uses having nothing to do with highway maintenance or building (I'll include maintenance of the Highway Police as a legitimate usage here). If the funds collected from the taxes were ONLY used for the highway uses (and the states were forced to return the embezzled funds to the Highway Fund) there were be enough money for the needed Highway Maintenance and Construction. |
