"Every once in awhile I reach that point where I've just got to get something off my chest. Living during the regime of "W", I guess, promotes the need.
- Why are we so damn afraid of adding a nickel to our gas tax so that we can address the critical maintenance needs of our highways and bridges?
- When will this country realize that transportation is a vital national requisite supporting our capitalistic structure - not something that has to be profit-driven in itself?
- For that matter, why are we so afraid of considering nationalized health care programs?
- When will we have the sense to recognize - in spite of the NRA - that the right to bear arms does not necessarily include semi-automatic weapons or grenade rocket launchers?
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Ralph - My fear in adding a nickel to the gas tax is that our legislator has already raided the transportation taxes for other uses. What is to stop them from doing it again.
As I sit here recovering from back surgery, I may have lost the use of my right leg if I had to wait for our inefficient government to decide whether surgery was necessary or not.
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