Tue January 19, 2021 - Northeast Edition
The CT Mirror
Construction and maintenance spending on Connecticut’s highways has decreased.
While the coronavirus dominated summer headlines, Connecticut s five-year effort to accelerate the transportation rebuilding program slowed to a stroll on July 1.
A risky initiative to force tolls by borrowing and spending billions of extra dollars on new projects between 2016 and 2020 concluded on that date, without those fees or any other plan to pay for all of it.
Now the state is left with a $2.8 billion bill, a cash-starved Special Transportation Fund (STF) headed toward insolvency and a construction industry poised to shrink even as the state struggles with unprecedented unemployment.
his budget deadline is tomorrow. he wants to run for president but his own state has been standing in his way. the governor promised not to announce his candidacy until legislators in the state came to a budget agreement. i haven t made an announcement yet and won t until after our budget is done at the end of this month, which hopefully we ll get our fifth and six year of property taxes taken down from when i first started taking office. wanted to pay for infrastructure projects. wisconsin republicans, they are not having it. 33 republican lawmakers signed a letter rejecting walker s proposal. walker ruled out raising taxes to pay for road and bridge repairs. it wouldn t fit with his conservative message. we ve cut taxes. i mentioned that before but we went big and bold there as well. we reduced taxes by $2 billion in the hoard working taxpayers on our state. we lowered taxes on individuals
elections appears to be making them incapable of pursuing any action at all. take, for example, the highway trust fund. if congress doesn t act by the end of the summer, the money will run out halting roads and bridge repairs and jobs that come with them at the height of the construction season in august. john boehner loves to roll out his favorite line, where are the jobs. president obama had a better question, why won t republicans do anything? it s not you know, the imperial presidency or no laws are broken. we ve just building roads and bridges like we ve been doing for the last, i don t know, 50, 100 years. i haven t heard a good reason why they haven t acted. it s not like they ve been busy with other stuff. indeed they are too busy, crafting a lawsuit against president obama. and indeed it is the imperial presidency just ask karl rove. this man has done more to reince constitute the concept of
it s actually for bridge repairs on the skyway that you can pay for unless you raise taxes. and everyone knows the gas tax, forget his presidential ambitions, the gas tax is so unpopular, it s really bad for you locally. the question is, can you make that hard choice up front. it s not just jersey, see it new york and everywhere you have public authorities that become cash could yws for governors. there s a federal investigation. we talk about the super dmt but the a second grand jury is i am panelled. the fact that the pulaski skyway people have talked about controversial parts of the record but now the skyway is an issue. i have driven down it many times, i m glad they are repairing it. infrastructure right, yes,
and altered plans for nearly 100,000 people. i m patty ann brown. now back to bulls and bears. for all of your headlines, log on to our website at fox news.com. track and tax. it started in oregon. and now other states are looking to put black boxes in cars to tax every mile you drive. the states want to raise more money for road and bridge repairs. but, john, you say it s raising a big privacy issue. yeah. see if angela merkel wants to come over here and get in a car with a black box right now. the nsa is spying on europeans to americans, reading our emails. you really want a black box in my chevy truck down in east texas? i don t think i want to do that. the problem is the gas tax hasn t been raised in two decades, and we need that to fund roads and bridges. look, this rewards cars that are