| *Breaking News* Highway Trust Fund Is Nearly Broke; Today the Transportation Department said that this month it is expecting to bring in $2.7 billion in gas tax ... |
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Today the Transportation Department said that this month it is expecting to bring in $2.7 billion in gas tax revenues but anticipates needing $4.4 billion to reimburse states for their highway and road projects. The department said it will start the upcoming fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 with no money in the trust funds if patterns continue as is.
| The difference? Less than 2 days' worth of the war in Iraq. We are paying for this war in more ways than one. How long before the next bridge collapses? How much are American lives right here at home worth? Not much, it seems. There are more important priorities, right?
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Originally Posted by danarhea  The difference? Less than 2 days' worth of the war in Iraq. We are paying for this war in more ways than one. How long before the next bridge collapses? How much are American lives right here at home worth? Not much, it seems. There are more important priorities, right?
Article is here. | Well, we should have suspended the $.18 per gallon gas tax, and we wouldn't be having this problem!!! Wait...
Oh. Now I see what McCain meant when he said he didn't know anything about economics. | |
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Originally Posted by tryreading Well, we should have suspended the $.18 per gallon gas tax, and we wouldn't be having this problem!!! Wait...
Oh. Now I see what McCain meant when he said he didn't know anything about economics. | Well, on McCain's behalf, he is not running the government into the ground at this time. Bush is. | |
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On McCain's behalf, he wants to continue for another hundred years. | 
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Originally Posted by danarhea Well, on McCain's behalf, he is not running the government into the ground at this time. Bush is. | But he's an over 90% Bush guy. | |
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