thing? why not. but the problem is who would be in control of that money? i m with rich on this. i think it s a great idea but the problem is that the trust fund now has turned into a pork wagon. state and local tax officials have used this to run over taxpayers with weird projects for things that have nothing to do with the roads, museums or bicycle paths or horse trails. i m not opposed to the latter to. you just have to put a lock box. put a lock box. once again we saw the lock box with the social security fund. politicians use it for their own thing. at least stop that process, right? absolutely. leave the highway trust fund alone. it was meant for highways. and leave it alone instead of using it for all of these other things but we already have an experiment underway called the national railway system. privatize the railroads. we deregulated them 30 years ago and now we have the best system in the world. let private people do it. you ll have a mix public and private but the