On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 02:04:50 +0000,
[email protected] (BobRoman)
wrote:
I hear that Ike wants to use tax money to build a highway system.
An Interstate Highway System (intra-city as well as inter-city) is
essential for national defense, economic growth, and public safety
(for example, the quick evacuation of cities in event of atomic
attack).
This ambitious project can be funded from Federal gasoline taxes
creating a self-sustaining financing model (some rural States can not
afford the funds for road building). This approach ensures that
highway users essentially pay for the system through taxes related to
their road usage.
(Eisenhower's vision, in 1954, was heavily influenced by his
experiences with poor road conditions during a 1919 transcontinental
military convoy and the efficiency of Germany's autobahn system during
World War II.)
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