Roads and bridges in good shape where you live? Well, not where I do. And do you think we shouldn't prioritize hardening the electric grid?
The electric grid is a separate topic, not part of highway dollars.
And I would be more supportive of highway taxes if they were spent on road and bridges, rather than the hundreds of millions of dollars thrown away on non-transportation pet projects.
Road Bill Reflects The Power Of Pork
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/10/AR2005081000223.html...But hundreds of millions of dollars will be channeled to programs that critics say have nothing to do with improving congestion or efficiency: $2.3 million for the beautification of the Ronald Reagan Freeway in California; $6 million for graffiti elimination in New York; nearly $4 million on the National Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio, and the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich.; $2.4 million on a Red River National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center in Louisiana; and $1.2 million to install lighting and steps and to equip an interpretative facility at the Blue Ridge Music Center, to name a few....
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Why aren’t we spending money for roads on roads?
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/transportation/344324-why-arent-we-spending-money-for-roads-on-roads...For example, in New York, a 2014 government report discovered only 22 percent of the state’s “Dedicated Highway and Bridge Trust Fund” was actually “dedicated” to highways and bridges. Instead of filling in potholes, the report said, 88 percent of New York’s gas-tax revenue was used for “state operations” and “debt service,” things intended to be funded through general revenue.
At the federal level, up to 25 percent of taxpayer funds collected from excise taxes on fuel purchases and stored in the federal Highway Trust Fund is used for purposes other than building highways and bridges....