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II.  Hitting the Road for Alternative Energy













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By Expunged on 1/26/2011 7:03:31 PM , Rating: 2
Here here.... I've been paying fuel tax, a fleet of vehicle taxes, etc for years and the road to my house is still 13 miles of rarely maintained dirt that connects to another 20 miles of crumbling, pothole infested, chip seal over asphalt that hasn't seen any maintenance in 20 years. I'm happy to know I'm not the only one that is paying for part of the cost of urban sprawl. I've seen the same interchange re-engineered, rebuilt, and revamped at least 4 times in the last 20 years and each time it's worse than before. Luckily I stay as far away from the wreck called a metropolis as possible.

The states, counties and local municipalities have all given their power away in the name of big government. The state steps in and says "Let us collect your sales tax for you, you don't have to maintain a sales tax department and we'll just send you a check". Sounds great to the local city except they don't realize that when the state needs some money they dip right into those funds. The state turns around and does the same thing, giving power to the federal government and at some point the local government has no power left because they have no funding and no ability to control their destiny.

The federal government should do the bare minimum things, provide for a national defense, deal with interstate issues, etc. Let the local governments do whatever they want, if Boston wants a train system let Boston pay for it, if LA wants health care let the residents of LA vote on it and pay for it. If the state wants something it needs to go to the counties for the funding, the counties go to the people.

