Ah, the Senate's hard at work redistributing wealth on behalf of auto companies and the wealthy.
Oh come on, Senator. Road and bridge construction & upkeep has been a major government function since the Revolutionary era you types idealize so well. And since Roman times before that.
The "auto companies" subsidy allegation is enough of a stretch (people by more cars when there're fewer potholes?), but "the wealthy"? Come on.
It's not at all of a 'stretch'. It's a fact.
There are plenty of people who do not own cars, many inner-city poor who cannot afford them, as well as the environmentally-conscious. They are being forced to pay for something that they will not use.
In fact they
cannot use them, unless they fork over thousands of dollars more to a private automotive corporation to buy their product.
This amounts to a subsidy to the automobile over other forms of transportation. Why does the federal government invest in the infrastructure necessary for automakers to sell cars rather than in mass-transit which all Atlasians can use?
As a fellow member of the Green Lobby, I am sure you are also well aware of the environmental ramifications of the government's persistent investment in subsidizing not-so-green methods of transportation via road construction.
I am not against roads, but let them be paid for by those who will use them. Stop giving an unfair advantage to automakers, the wealthy, and the automobile as a form of transportation in general. There are better ways to invest in infrastructure for the benefit of all Atlasians.
