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Old 01-30-2014, 08:07 AM
 
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I've seen it citied that the 5th st exit from the southbound side will go away. But as we all know we're quite a ways from construction.
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Old 01-30-2014, 11:12 AM
 
Location: Kennedy Heights, Ohio. USA
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Coseau--

No, it's the downside of having gasoline taxes fund mass transit, which it has been doing since 1983. Mass transit spending accounts for 20% of the money that goes into the "highway" trust fund. (source - 2.86 cents/gallon goes into Mass Transit Account). Another 2.5 cents of the gas tax goes to the general fund for deficit reduction. Those two account for at least a third of what should be in the road fund.

It's why gas taxes no longer cover the cost of road repairs and maintenance - because the money is being siphoned elsewhere.

Spend that money on replacing the Brent Spence and a couple other high-priority road projects. Problem solved.
This is the consequence of what happens to infrastructure when taxes are cut (while two major wars are going on) and the belief that public infrastructure should be privatized or starved of public funding on the belief that taxes are innately evil supported by liberals intent on depriving people of liberty.
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Old 01-30-2014, 11:23 AM
 
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Personally I am 100% for tolling the Brent Spence Bridge as it stands and NOT building a new bridge.

Where is the current tax money going that is supposed to be used for road/bridge upkeep?
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Old 01-30-2014, 11:26 AM
 
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This is the consequence of what happens to infrastructure when taxes are cut .

My taxes have not decreased. What cut are you referring to?
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Old 01-30-2014, 11:37 AM
 
Location: Kennedy Heights, Ohio. USA
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My taxes have not decreased. What cut are you referring to?
Taxes for the wealthy and conglomerate corporations. The tax burden has shifted disproportionately to the working laboring class.
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Old 01-30-2014, 11:39 AM
 
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Taxes for the wealthy and conglomerate corporations. The tax burden has shifted disproportionately to the working laboring class.

My wealthy brother pays more in taxes now than anytime in the past.
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Old 01-30-2014, 11:47 AM
 
Location: Kennedy Heights, Ohio. USA
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My wealthy brother pays more in taxes now than anytime in the past.
My wealthy brother pays less in taxes now than anytime in the past.
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Old 01-30-2014, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Mason, OH
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My wealthy brother pays less in taxes now than anytime in the past.
Sounds like a Mexican standoff to me. Let's just keep level heads so this doesn't turn into a shouting match.

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Old 01-30-2014, 11:57 AM
 
Location: Kennedy Heights, Ohio. USA
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sounds like a mexican standoff to me.
lol
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Old 01-30-2014, 02:10 PM
 
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Where is the current tax money going that is supposed to be used for road/bridge upkeep?
This year's budget? I'd assume a lot of it is going to go into road repair after this rough winter. And considering how many roads this nation has that are going to be affected, it might eat up a big chunk of next year's budget too.

The road infrastructure is aging, fast. There needs to be a smart mixture of purging unused roadways (like the four-lane boulevards with medians in Middletown, for instance), replacing the correct infrastructure (like bridges which are structurally deficient, not ones that are only considered to be "functionally obsolete"), and designing roads and their surrounding built environments to last. Right now a lot of money is being spent on unnecessary highways like I-69 in southern Indiana, massive beltways around low-density sprawling cities like Nashville, and unnecessary road-widening projects like having a 23-lane wide interstate highway in Atlanta. Better urban planning can solve this, and put our infrastructure money to better use.
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