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Raise the Fed Tax on Gas?

Jan 14, 2015 8:30PM PST

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Response
Jan 14, 2015 9:45PM PST

From your link

So we don't have a "funding" crisis, but a "spending" crisis.

Yeah.....BECAUSE

the share that is "structurally deficient" has fallen from 22 percent in 1992 to 10 percent in 2013. The share that is "functionally obsolete" has also fallen.

more money was spent on highways?

You don't mind spending money repairing "structurally deficient" and "functionally obsolete" highways do you?

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They are obviously being
Jan 14, 2015 10:57PM PST

repaired or replaced with the funds available right now......to the point of going from 22 percent to 10 percent just last year.......so why do you think there is a need for more money when what they are currently getting is more than adequate?

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RE; going from 22 percent to 10 percent just last year.
Jan 14, 2015 11:27PM PST
going from 22 percent to 10 percent just last year. when what they are currently getting is more than adequate?

This is where I remark on your inability to comprehend what you've supposedly read. (as you have done to me numerous times)

the share that is "structurally deficient" has fallen from 22 percent in 1992 to 10 percent in 2013.

It did not go from 22% to 10 % "just last year"

It was 22% IN 1992 and IN 2013 it was 10%..it took 21 years to reduce it to 10 %.

Taking 21 years to reduce from 22% to 10% is no where near more than adequate.

That's not even paying the interest on a credit card debt.
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PS
Jan 14, 2015 11:40PM PST

You can even check to see if it's safe to cross bridges in your area.

Bridges: Conditions & Capacity

The percentage of bridges that are either functionally obsolete or structurally deficient has been declining slowly over the last decade as states and cities have increased efforts to prioritize repairs and replacements. In 2012, one in nine, or just below 11%, of the nation's bridges were classified as structurally deficient. The number of bridges defined as functionally obsolete has also declined, with currently 24.9% of the nation's bridges defined in either deficiency category. However, while billions have been spent annually on bridge construction, rehabilitation, and repair in the last twenty years, current funding levels are not enough to repair or replace the nation's large-scale, urban bridges, which carry a high percentage of the nation's traffic. To illustrate, the nation's 66,749 structurally deficient bridges make up one-third of the total bridge decking area in the country, showing that those bridges that remain classified as structurally deficient are significant in size and length, while the bridges that are being repaired are smaller in scale.

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I read what you posted....
Jan 14, 2015 11:59PM PST

and the 'just last year' remark by me was to point out that they did a report 'just last year' and it has dropped dramatically from 22 percent.......all using the funding that has been available. They just finally began putting it to good use. BUT it COULD have been much better stats IF BO had actually used that STIMULUS money for those 'shovel ready' jobs that really WERE shovel ready over six years ago, doncha think? I mean, those roads and bridges WERE ready to be repaired or replaced and HE didn't spend the STIMULUS money on ANY of it, did he? Nope....normal funding was used instead so obviously it is adequate enough to keep going on getting those percentages down even further, right?

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dropped dramatically from 22 percent.
Jan 15, 2015 12:27AM PST

Nothing drops "dramatically" over a 21 year timeline.

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But
Jan 15, 2015 12:38AM PST

if there's only 10% left to fix/replace, we're on the right track, right? And no comment about the unused stimulus money that COULD have been used to finish up that 10%?

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and every year more stuff deteriorates
Jan 15, 2015 12:48AM PST

However, while billions have been spent annually on bridge construction, rehabilitation, and repair in the last twenty years, current funding levels are not enough to repair or replace the nation's large-scale, urban bridges, which carry a high percentage of the nation's traffic.

Every year...more vehicles, more wear and tear, more construction...and on and on.....it's an endless cycle. UNLESS you can built something that doesn't deteriorate.

Work on some devise that can transport individuals and material from A to B would be nice....It would be known as a "Transporter"

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Think of the billions that could have been
Jan 15, 2015 3:45AM PST

directed exactly towards those nation's large-scale urban bridges with the SEPARATE funding from the stimulus............and wasn't. Aren't you even a little bit upset about how it got wasted instead? Guess not since you refuse to even discuss that issue, and are firmly entrenched/planted into raising the federal tax on gasoline instead.

EOD

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RE: EOD
Jan 15, 2015 3:49AM PST

Goodnight Gracie