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Originally Posted by Rich Z
Now, that is an interesting statement right there....
Just how did the government swindle us into accepting that fallacy as a fact?
The roads are built and maintained with public funds taken from the public as taxes and fees. They are considered as PUBLIC roadways. Being's as the only true utility of such PUBLIC roadways is via driving vehicles upon them, then why do we not have the RIGHT to use that for which we have paid for?
Yeah, I'm feeling cranky lately. Getting tired of all the BS the government is trying to shovel down our throats while they stick the iron claw into our pockets to be taking ever increasing chunks of my money and pieces of my butt if I don't move fast enough to avoid the claws. Getting REAL tired of being treated like tax cattle to be used and abused as needed and squeezed harder because they want to spend more and more of the money they don't have with no real controls nor oversight from "the people".  |
Then get out there and work for CHANGE!!!
Not the O' Change, but real change!!
Change where the public officals fear not listening to us, the constituents!
Change where they no longer become "career politicians"
And you're right about public funding for the streets and highways; however, the U.S. Constitution, although allowing us to move about freely (ie: without visas and ID cards for the moment
), grants any rights not specifically delegatted to the Federal Government, to the individual states.
You and I have the ability to roam from town to town, county to county and state to state. We can walk, ride bicycles, horseback or donkeys. What we are
NOT guaranteed by the constitution, is the "
right" to drive.
Interstates are actually designated as part of the National Defense Highway System and could in effect, be closed to all vehicular traffic other than military and it's designees in a time of national emergency. Travel on these NDHS roads is not guaranteed, it's "granted."
Sure, taxpayer dollars go to building and maintaining these roads, but those same tax dollars (well, similar ones anyway) go to fund various programs that we (you and I) may not endorse or care about. We don't have that much say about how and where our tax dollars are spent.
It simply is what it is and as stated, driving is a privilidge not a right and comes "with strings."
Don't care for the rules, get involved and change them!
As long as $$$ is involved and the states are held hostage by the feds, there will always be concessions.