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Reach for your wallets

"It's going to be hard." 

By Jonathan D. Miller | Updated on December 19, 2007

“It’s going to be hard.” 

President Bush was referring on Monday to finding ways to pay for looming and necessary improvements to the nation’s deteriorating transportation systems. Remember that Minneapolis bridge collapse? The “no new taxes” and “smaller federal government” approach has not served to maintain and expand the country’s highways and mass transit in a way that can meet the demands of the growing population and the realities of a globalizing economy. The federal government had funded the interstate system through the gas tax in the 1950s and 1960s. But since 1980, our Washington politicos have refused to raise the gas tax, sending the Highway Trust Fund into the red by 2009 and leaving the states to fund road improvements most can’t afford.

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