John Stossel: Government Spent Your Gas-Tax Billions on Urban Transit

As big-government folks worry that Republicans
will cut transportation spending, Republicans debate adding another
$10.5 billion to the Highway Trust Fund to keep it going another
year—without deciding how to reform it. And reform is needed,
argues John Stossel. Too little federal transportation money goes
to building and repairing roads and bridges, while Congress uses
gas taxes to pay for things like bicycle trails and urban
transit. 

It’s part of the larger problem with urban planners, who work
closely with government to try and herd people out of suburbs and
into denser urban areas. How about going the opposite route? asks
Stossel. Let people live where they choose, let private entities
build roads and mass transit, and let user fees from commuters pay
for roads and transit.

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