"Gas" tax is already about $1.50 a gallon in the US, so how about no.
Sure the actual Fed fuel tax is only $.18 a gallon, but you are forgetting State fuel tax along with the sales tax, corporate taxes at the local, state and federal level on the gas station, distributer, refiner, tankers, and the people that pull it out of the ground, along with royalties and other fees demanded by the Federal overlords.
They have plenty of money for infrastructure they are just pissing it away on other things.
This is called zoning, and you can thank all the city planners, love those bureaucrats and their wacky ideas, as to why in most areas you can't live where you work.
My next door neighbor can run a small business and have chickens on his property because his is zoned single family farm lot. Mine can have dual family housing, aka townhouses or split, but sadly no businesses or chickens because it is zoned multi-family.
Oh and the smallest lot any house can be on is 1/2 acre, so no tiny housing or trailer parks, or appartments, or anything without the planning commission getting it's bribe.....err consultation fee.
Hopefully you are being sarcastic and are not just an idiot. The poor and middle income brackets are hardest hit by infrastructure taxes and the most dependent on them. (Those evil rich people have private jets and helicopters so don't really need road.) So again the crazy thought is the States and the Feds should actually spend all the money they collect from fuel taxes on you know roads.
California for example was only spending about 25% of what they collected on the roads when I lived there 8 years ago.
You misunderstood my point. You are not an idiot just because you have a gun. Just the opposite in most cases. Liberals that think all gun owners are idiots are much larger idiots than even the biggest idiot who happens to have a gun. Idiots tend to kill themselves without help or interference from those around them which takes me to my second point.
Liberal scream Evolution, Evolution, Evolution, which is nothing more than the effects of natural selection over the long term, but at the same time they scream for protection, aka gov't regulations and laws, from said natural selection from taking it's "natural" course. I guess that is merely to prevent liberalism from being removed from the gene pool.
Along those lines I'd like to apply general aviation training requirements before being allowed to drive a car.
So after 35 hours of instruction, somewhere around $7000 is costs, able to pass an annual physical and mental evaluation, and speak clearly in English, . You'd be allowed to drive a 50hp, two passenger car up to 45mph, during the day, non-highway roads only, and only when the weather is clear and sunny. This would apply regardless of which country you live in btw.
If you were ever convicted of reckless behavior or a DUI you'd lose your license forever.
As far as gun owners needing to be astronauts, that's over-kill. Idiots with guns tends to be a self correcting problem. I thought all liberals preached natural selection. Why do they fight so hard against it?
Homeschool only works if you actually set a challenging agenda for your kid. Most public school these days either teach the test or teach for the slowest kid in the class. The benefit of homeschooling is they can actually get some more interesting skills in addition to academic knowledge: Martial arts, sports, industrial arts, regular arts and crafts, gardening, etc that are rarely available in either public or private school.
The only other thing public/private school offers is socialization, which is a must, but you get the good with the bad. With a little planning I'm thinking it would be pretty easy to have your kid interact with a wide variety of children and adults.
If only all the slaves.....er regular people did as they were told then us smart people would be happy.
That's not how it is supposed to work.
If scientists discover that sticking a fork in your eye is bad for you and might hurt, he has a duty to report especially if he is paid by public largess, but the public at large has a right to keep on sticking said forks in their eyes if that's what they want to do.
Global warming...got it. I don't live close to the water and frankly don't like the people that do. You say the ocean is going to come up and get them? Sounds good to me. Fuck the idiots that build that close and no I'm not going to give up my lifestyle and 23% of my paycheck to help "prevent" it.
In further news various governments have dropped all attempts at regulating the internet after the 15th successful kicker starter campaign has created yet another global network outside of their control....
The bottom line is that the Bolt is a Chevy, and a Chevy is a GM, and GM is the auto production arm of the Federal Government that should have gone bankrupt and broken up a dozen times over in the past 50 years.
From which I will never buy a vehicle from. The End.
Wow talk about lag, sending the data all the way back to earth. Ouch. Maybe they should just make a big orbital server to put around Mars so the surface probes can upload to it.
The reason you think it is hard is because you don't have the dealer repair manuals. Spend a few bucks and you will have step by step instructions on how to fix just about anything on your new car. And yes you can order them. Just tell the dealer that tells you no to fuck off and go to another one for both the books and the car. It's amazing how quickly they will change their tune and order you the books.
Yes by all means let's keep it difficult to communicate with one another that always helps groups of people to get along.
"I'm sorry but I don't speak your Booga Booga language" says people all of the world when they encounter a frustrating situation with a person speaking a miss-matched dialect
It is time for the SciFi language of "standard/common" to get out there. We already have the communicators and they are finally getting close to flying cars. Standard would probably just be English, but people object to English purely for marking reasons. (Western culture coming to destroy our local one.) Call it something else and clean up the last of the junk letters/rules and make it a purely phonetic language and it'll be truly global in 20 years.
People can still have their local lingo, but it's time we moved on.
Tesla is doing some very neat stuff on a very fast timeline. They did just release a hardware and software update for the Roadster that bumps its range 40%.
All the new drones aren't actually flown by pilots. Sure they have a manual mode, but 99% of the time they are simply told where to go. You don't even need a radio link unless you need to update parameters.
Input mission: Take off, goto Spot A do an action, goto Spot B do an action, turn around and fly home, land, turn off engines/shut down systems.
They are modular and there is an insane amount of money in it. Never heard of the military industrial complex?
The reality is that good enough is good enough. Unlike in the movies the reality is that the military doesn't upgrade everything just because something new and shiny came out. The computer that you are typing on is more advanced than the computers in even the latest fighters. The difference is the ones in the aircraft are rarely fail and can operate in very harsh environments.
Combat drones don't need to dogfight, that is also Hollywood nonsense. They are small, impossible to see, and will shoot you down before you even know they are there, and they are already building them.
The JSF is the last project of the old guard who still think a man needs to be at the stick of the aircraft. Once the over 50 crowd in congress dies/retires you see a drastic move away from manned aircraft.
Duh, people are pretty ignorant of how aircraft development works. The latest and the greatest planes are nearly 30 years old. The F-22 was prototyped when I was in high school (80's) and the F-35 was in proto-typing in the 90's. You aren't just developing an airframe, but all the systems inside and outside the aircraft along with training people to operate said systems. It takes a long time to shake all that out.
Even things like cars are like that too. The models for 2015 will have parts on them that haven't been upgraded since the 80's.
He's dating himself. Tyson's Punch Out came out in 1987. Zoobas in 1988. I was playing Space Invaders when your parents were not even born yet.
As far as the morally superiority that would be the Baby Boomers in the 60's. Considerably earlier than even Space Invaders. Of course the Boomer's moral superiority has done nothing but cause problems. Cant' wait to see what damage the Millennials does in another 10-20 years.
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Sure the actual Fed fuel tax is only $.18 a gallon, but you are forgetting State fuel tax along with the sales tax, corporate taxes at the local, state and federal level on the gas station, distributer, refiner, tankers, and the people that pull it out of the ground, along with royalties and other fees demanded by the Federal overlords.
They have plenty of money for infrastructure they are just pissing it away on other things.
My next door neighbor can run a small business and have chickens on his property because his is zoned single family farm lot. Mine can have dual family housing, aka townhouses or split, but sadly no businesses or chickens because it is zoned multi-family.
Oh and the smallest lot any house can be on is 1/2 acre, so no tiny housing or trailer parks, or appartments, or anything without the planning commission getting it's bribe.....err consultation fee.
California for example was only spending about 25% of what they collected on the roads when I lived there 8 years ago.
Liberal scream Evolution, Evolution, Evolution, which is nothing more than the effects of natural selection over the long term, but at the same time they scream for protection, aka gov't regulations and laws, from said natural selection from taking it's "natural" course. I guess that is merely to prevent liberalism from being removed from the gene pool.
So after 35 hours of instruction, somewhere around $7000 is costs, able to pass an annual physical and mental evaluation, and speak clearly in English, . You'd be allowed to drive a 50hp, two passenger car up to 45mph, during the day, non-highway roads only, and only when the weather is clear and sunny. This would apply regardless of which country you live in btw.
If you were ever convicted of reckless behavior or a DUI you'd lose your license forever.
As far as gun owners needing to be astronauts, that's over-kill. Idiots with guns tends to be a self correcting problem. I thought all liberals preached natural selection. Why do they fight so hard against it?
The only other thing public/private school offers is socialization, which is a must, but you get the good with the bad. With a little planning I'm thinking it would be pretty easy to have your kid interact with a wide variety of children and adults.
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Though if you think it will "only" be .05% then your ignorance is leaving mine in the dust.
That's not how it is supposed to work.
If scientists discover that sticking a fork in your eye is bad for you and might hurt, he has a duty to report especially if he is paid by public largess, but the public at large has a right to keep on sticking said forks in their eyes if that's what they want to do.
Global warming...got it. I don't live close to the water and frankly don't like the people that do. You say the ocean is going to come up and get them? Sounds good to me. Fuck the idiots that build that close and no I'm not going to give up my lifestyle and 23% of my paycheck to help "prevent" it.
In further news various governments have dropped all attempts at regulating the internet after the 15th successful kicker starter campaign has created yet another global network outside of their control....
From which I will never buy a vehicle from. The End.
Spend less time on something that happens a long time ago and worry more about things like those call centers and your nifty new space program.
he said "if it wasn't subsidized" the price would go down.
300,000,000 roommates. Don't much care about the rest of the world.
"We are now able to engineer the climate. Weather in Florida will be even nicer year round.....North Dakota...sorry...but you are fucked"
Wow talk about lag, sending the data all the way back to earth. Ouch. Maybe they should just make a big orbital server to put around Mars so the surface probes can upload to it.
The reason you think it is hard is because you don't have the dealer repair manuals. Spend a few bucks and you will have step by step instructions on how to fix just about anything on your new car. And yes you can order them. Just tell the dealer that tells you no to fuck off and go to another one for both the books and the car. It's amazing how quickly they will change their tune and order you the books.
"I'm sorry but I don't speak your Booga Booga language" says people all of the world when they encounter a frustrating situation with a person speaking a miss-matched dialect
It is time for the SciFi language of "standard/common" to get out there. We already have the communicators and they are finally getting close to flying cars. Standard would probably just be English, but people object to English purely for marking reasons. (Western culture coming to destroy our local one.) Call it something else and clean up the last of the junk letters/rules and make it a purely phonetic language and it'll be truly global in 20 years.
People can still have their local lingo, but it's time we moved on.
Tesla is doing some very neat stuff on a very fast timeline. They did just release a hardware and software update for the Roadster that bumps its range 40%.
Input mission: Take off, goto Spot A do an action, goto Spot B do an action, turn around and fly home, land, turn off engines/shut down systems.
The reality is that good enough is good enough. Unlike in the movies the reality is that the military doesn't upgrade everything just because something new and shiny came out. The computer that you are typing on is more advanced than the computers in even the latest fighters. The difference is the ones in the aircraft are rarely fail and can operate in very harsh environments.
Combat drones don't need to dogfight, that is also Hollywood nonsense. They are small, impossible to see, and will shoot you down before you even know they are there, and they are already building them.
The JSF is the last project of the old guard who still think a man needs to be at the stick of the aircraft. Once the over 50 crowd in congress dies/retires you see a drastic move away from manned aircraft.
Even things like cars are like that too. The models for 2015 will have parts on them that haven't been upgraded since the 80's.
As far as the morally superiority that would be the Baby Boomers in the 60's. Considerably earlier than even Space Invaders. Of course the Boomer's moral superiority has done nothing but cause problems. Cant' wait to see what damage the Millennials does in another 10-20 years.
We used to think only White people are racist, but now we know better.
Yes, so are the black people in Africa, unless they are white, which confuses things because they too would be African Americans.
Yep that about sums up how I feel.
Of course we don't have much in the way of soldiers, but we do have all the planes.