With continuing low motor fuels tax receipts, how should the government fund transportation projects in the future?
If Congress increases oil domestic production and refining, then the cost of gasoline will be lower prompting an increase in traveling by individuals for work and recreation and lowering the cost of transportation of goods to encourage commerce and shipping. Motor fuel taxes would suffice if Congress took steps to lower the cost of gasoline. Congress also should simplify the ever-increasing regulations of trucking companies, since even shipping businesses that are trying to follow the rules receive conflicting, contradictory, and incorrect information from the very officials that are supposed to be telling them how to follow the rules, and the misinformed businesses have to pay fines for following the incorrect information. NAFTA has not made it easier for small businesses to transport goods to Canada and Mexico, and so it should be repealed. Congress must stop the states from taking publicly funded and owned highways and privatizing them into toll roads managed and owned by internatio
