Comments by "B Callahan" (@bcallahan3806) on "Tucker: This is who the left blames for Virginia's highway nightmare" video.

  1. DOT, one of the biggest scams by federal, state and local governments. Hundreds of billions of dollars collected annually in taxes. Enough to repave every road, repair or replace every bridge, dock,airport, etc on a regular basis. Yet they're broke. Why. Greed. Politicians saw all that money and could not let it go to waste on maintenance, upgrades, financial obligations of retirement. You know that silly stuff. So they play the pass me around game. So things like politicians government cars are paid for through DOT funds. But first handed to as many agencies as possible so they can take their 10% cut just for shuffling the money. So the 150 thousand allocated buys a 30 thousand dollar vehicle. Or more likely leases one to hide the cost. Or bridges in California going at least 10X over budget because municipalities on either side can't agree on a design. Just a couple of the thousands of wasteful things that occur. Fuel taxes were supposed to be dedicated funds, had they remained so and used properly we should have had the best transportation system on the planet. From mass transit to a country lane. Roads if an additional 10% was invested on initial construction, would have saved at least 5 fold on future maintenance. Instead it's " you're getting flip flops cuz politicians need new designer shoes.
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