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That would be at the exit 151, right? I’ve done that inadvertently, and would do it advert entry if it didn’t take longer than just going to my own exit.

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Gas taxes - and, yes, tolls - are "user fees." Use the road and pay for it. Don't use it, don't pay. Income tax is not the answer for roads, IMHO.

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Then ther is this guy In Saudi Arabia who just shook down his fellow sheikhs so as to spend a half billion ameros on a dubious da Vinci.

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Alternative physics.

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Charleston has waaaaay better architecture, and the Civil War started there, so tons of history. It was extremely dilapidated, and very souther gothic in the 1970s. I miss that shabby, dirty, little town.

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That’s exactly the one I’m thinking of.

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"If you eat you use the roads." You're right. I'll give you that.

Electric vehicles are the disruptive technology that will force someone to rethink how roads and bridges are paid for.

Everyone wants to blame the trucks for the damage. They also pay a lot more than cars to use the roads. Is it comparable to the damage they do? There's really no definitive answer. You can probably thank the trucking lobby for that lack of research.

When they make income taxes as progressive as they should be, I'll be open to using income taxes for roads. Right now, given the recent tax "reform," I guess I'd rather use gas taxes for roads and use income taxes to make sure people - especially children - have health care.

This country is so fucked up when it comes to money and taxation. There are no magic bullets to be enacted on any of these difficult questions. I will settle for baby steps in the right direction. Raise the fucking federal gas tax. I'd settle for 10 cents per gallon.

I could spend a lot more time writing about this stuff, but it's after 9 p.m. and I've had a couple of glasses of wine, so I'll shut up now.

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probably put a toll booth on the gravel road i use to go to town if that fuck gets another term -

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THIS is going to be the biggest scandal of the Trump administration as the next administration will audit these projects and learn that there was a lot of backroom dealing handing the projects to private interests with government connections with kickbacks and pay offs that land a lot of people in federal prison.If you're graduating from law school in the next few years the biggest growth is going to be white collar crime representation as all these crooks face prosecution once Trump is out of office

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Shit. They at least got soma. What do we get? Fighting tooth and nail to keep pot from being legalized, but they'll give us opioids.

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I was behind a conservative retired couple in the post office. Man, do these people have a problem with all forms of public transportation.

"If they can't afford a car, they can get a bike."

Yeah, January in Columbus, Ohio is so bike friendly.

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Guillotines, we need moar guillotines...

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Drain the swamp.... to make a new one in the backyard!

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He indeed returned to work early! Promises made promises kept!

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♫ ...this land was made for you and me ♫ ♫...if you're a billionaire and Trump is the president ♫

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All of the above. Simultaneously.

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