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Interstate highway system should have been toll financed - an anonymous government commenter
Posted on Mon, 2009-12-28 22:59Year's end saw a widely circulated satire trumpeting the success of the interstate highway system as an argument for government-provided health services (see link at bottom). It generated this comment from a transportation analyst who has to remain anonymous: "Apparently we are expected to think that because the Interstate Highway system is heavily used it therefore follows that Federal funding (90%) was the best way to pay for it. There are several reasons to think otherwise.
