✡ Reading along in the NYTimes today about these closures in Arizona – a state where no people should live anyway. It would seems people are up in arms that their rest stops are closed due to budget cuts.
Two things came to mind
- Pee in the woods/side of the road/sand dunes/cactus patches
- If you want the spending priorities of your state to change, then get involved.
Then I read along, which I should have known would only boil my blood:
“I honestly think they are setting us up because they want to do a tax increase,” Ms. Roberts said. “I think by shutting down things people want, they will give us one.”
Ok little miss sunshine, I don’t know about your tax burden, but the USA has the largest population of freeloads in the world. We all want to pay nothing for everything. Moreover, the solution isn’t privatization, the solution is that we have to start with being less obsessed with creating free roads everywhere, extending our infrastructure into the boonies, and having people live there that do not carry the burden of said infrastructure.
You shouldn’t live 2 hours by car from anything you normally have to go to, gas taxes in your state should be raised to a point that your roads are covered and appropriate legislation to keep your politicians from taking it to line their own pockets, interests or otherwise.
Your state got into a fisical mess, like mine, because of promising too much, the electorate being a bunch of cry babies, and some nation sense of entitlement: I want it now and I dont want to pay for it.
I would love to see the roads torn up, not paid for, and everyone switch to use fees. This is why I tend to be a Libertarian and why I think the tunnels near me should be 50$ if that is what it takes to properly maintain them, lower the tax burden and properly fund transit alternatives.
But I am back to where I started, you have no g-d given right to a toilet and you have no g-d given right to live 2 hours in the middle of nowhere.