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Friday, August 01, 2008

I Plan To Spend Gas Tax Holiday Monday At Blackpool (or Disney World)

John McCain's Gas Tax Holiday is/was such a good idea, that the LA Times has a story on it. Well, not on it directly, sort of round about: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bridge1-2008aug01,0,4924543.story Urgency has buckled since Minneapolis bridge collapse The sagging economy has weakened national resolve for repairs -- and has depleted the gas-tax fund that would pay for them. By P.J. Huffstutter and DeeDee Correll, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers August 1, 2008 ..."The push to repair bridges and our country's infrastructure has become a victim of the bad economy," said Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, a Democrat who, along with California GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and others, is calling for more federal aid to repair deteriorating highways and bridges. "If we don't put money into our roads and bridges and infrastructure, our economy will get even worse. We won't be able to transport anything across this country."... ..Much of the money for bridge repairs on public roads comes from the federal Highway Trust Fund, primarily financed by a federal gasoline tax. But as soaring fuel costs have prompted Americans to drive fewer miles, the fund is dwindling... ...To help shore up the Highway Trust Fund, some observers propose increasing the gas tax, which has remained relatively steady at 18.4 cents per gallon since 1993. I think a National Infrastructure Czar should be appointed and a new Leviathan Department of Infrastructure and What-Not be created, costing millions and millions, most of which could have been spent of building infrastructure itself. Remember how I have said that this Administration has not properly administered anything on its watch? How there has been no savings for investment in infrastructure? Chickens...home...roost. Roost, baby! Terminatorlike: I'll be back...to roost!

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