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  1. And nothing is said about the at least twenty times that funds were switched from one place to another in the 2011-2013 budget? Why just transportation for a constitutional change?
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  3. Roads are primarily paid for by property taxes, income taxes, and other taxes. Why not "wall off" these other taxes from being used to pay for roads? They need to create this one way street, where all kinds of high taxes go INTO paying for roads, but can't come out. That way our taxes and fees can keep going up, and government can keep growing. This is an excuse to keep taxes on an upward path, which is what driving causes.
  4. When you want to spend BILLIONS of dollars for just a few projects in the next couple of years, you are going to need all the taxpayer money you can get your hands on.
  5. Walker and the GOP are truly vile.
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  6. Whaddya know.... they want hands-off the transportation fund to protect the money for their cronies, and yet they tried to raid the pension fund in the fall of 2012. Luckily, the pension fund said NO. As in N-O. NO WAY. Their sleaziness makes my skin crawl.
  7. I like this idea. Infrastructure is something businesses look at when considering where to locate. We should never be robbing Peter to pay Paul, so I say write into the constitution.
  8. I think most reasonable people will agree there are more important things in the states budget than roads. If funds are to be "walled" off We should wall offf the higher priority things first.
    Personally if i have to choose between my child's education and the pothole getting fixed in front of my house, My child's education wins every time.
    Roads are only a sacred cow right now because of road builders heavily investing in GOP campaigns.
    I will be voting against this when it comes for referendum and urge all responsible citizens to do the same


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