Falling bridges. Raise gas taxes?

Question

Weakening infrastructure. The Minnestoa guv vetoed gas tax increase to fix the bridges. Should he be sued or impeached? Should gas taxes be raised nationwide to fix the 160,000 bridges in disrepair or should we use Iraq war money to fix the infrastructure??

Answer 1

We need to eliminate pork barrel projects and politicians putting forward projects to get their name on a building/bridge etc.
You can hardly sue or impeach the Governor for doing the right thing. Why raise takes when the money is already there. Also your estimate on bridges is grossly inflated.

Answer 2

Throwing money at a problem rarely makes it go away. If it is the will of the people and it is advantageous to the politicians to "fix" the bridge, the bridge will become fixed.

Of course we all knew it was only a matter of time until the Libs tell us that Bush is responsible for the bridge collapse. I'm amazed it has taken this long.

Answer 3

..there is a bigger picture than your options will addaquately address...the price of gas today has very little to do with what taxes are realized,..if any thing, folks are cutting down on gas consumption, and 'that effects taxes....
The cost of gas is a political result of gouge and pillage industry in an international office...you get what you vote for.
Impeaching a governor for a higher office's self-serving agenda is a pathetic attempt at delligating responsibility, and will solve absolutely nothing.
Raising taxes is inevetable, regardless, because the infrastructure has been so compromised by political agendas already that it will take 4 to 6 generations to recover the financual stability of this country, if it is even posible any more to do so,..
The 160.000 bridges are fast becomeing a rather insignificant problem...because no one who drives will be going any where due to the oil companys strangelation of local economics..
"Iraq war moneys" will dwindel substancually once this next election is over, regardless who is elected, because as far as the oil industrys of america is concerned, that "war" has served it purpose well.
The next 'offoce' will do nothing but adjust to the agendas of the last, and feed us another line of BS, and move rite along with another agenda that has few if any options of resolveing the instalations of international political influence this one has imposed on us.

But...what the hell..the tax payers will pay for it all wether they want to or not. Congress will give themselves another raise, and give us another list of burocratic horse crap, and we will all pout and pisz, and build more prisons, hire more cops, build bigger armys, bigger guns, bigger spy systems, bigger government, and continue on our way to global domination.
It's the NEW american dream.

Answer 4

160,000 bridges? The Number I saw was 70,000. Can you support 160,000 claim? Don't use the Iraq war to fund bridges. They are two separate issues. The other issue about sueing the Gov. The I-35 bridge was in bad shape, but last I checked they were performing bridge repairs when this happened. It wasn't something that happened cause the Bridge was bad. They were fixing the Bridge when this happened.

Answer 5

No, no, no. Merely force Congress and the states to use the tax money that is already supposed to be dedicated to the infrastructure.

BTW, I love how the kool-aid sycophants have already increased the number from 70,000 to 160,000 bridges. It's akin to the numbers of uninsured or Iraqis killed. Liberals just throw streisand against the wall, and if it sticks they call it gospel.

Answer 6

Bush has already allocated the funds necessary to rebuild the bridge - we, the people, will now pay, again, for the monies previously allocated for the repairs and apparently squandered on other projects.
Good example is the 2.5 million dollar project that was being done on this bridge when it collapsed - absolutely nothing to do with the deteriorating condition of the actual structure - it was getting resurfaced(!)
Because this bridge failure has brought this problem to the forefront, you can bet the farm the government will be crying for more money. A better plan, in my humble opinion, would be to merely cut back on the earmarks and pork barrel waste and allocate the savings toward rebuilding and repairing our infrastructure. God knows they already have the money - they can build bridges in Alaska to nowhere, purchase $300 hammers, allocate millions for global warming research and vote themselves a raise every year. Yes, they have the money - they just can't seem to prioritize the spending of it without first buying all of the votes and support they need in their own particular districts.

Answer 7

Pot holes. Lousy roads. Rotting bridges. I'd like to see an accounting of where the current gas taxes are going before imposing new ones.

Answer 8

Oh what the hell is yet another 18 or so Billion, stop your crying! The bastards have drained us and there is not a damned element we are in a position to do. relax, while your ineffective it won't make in simple terms a sprint distinction besides!

Answer 9

no no no no no less taxes more people spend . would you rather have a person buy 2 gal at 25 tax or one gal at 26 . to the goverment why do you think taxing more is a good idiea

Answer 10

the government!, all local, state and fed, need to learn how to use the trillions of tax dollars that they get properly. they have more than enough money coming in to prevent things like this from happening, but they steal and waste the money as if it grows on trees. We don't need to keep paying for inept leadership, leadership needs to take control of their responsibilities, after all, that's why we pay taxes, right!?