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The Senate has sired a new incarnation of that monument to wasteful spending, the federal highway bill.(The Week)(Brief Article)
The Senate has sired a new incarnation of that monument to wasteful spending, the federal highway bill. According to the Heritage Foundation's Ronald D. Utt, the bill would direct up to 40 percent of federal fuel-tax revenues toward projects that have little or nothing to do with highway improvements. That's a sign that the program has outlived its usefulness. The federal fuel tax should be eliminated, and individual states, which undertake repairs and improvements within their borders, should fund their work through state gas taxes. The feds would thus be denied the ...
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