Some GOP just don't get it

[scooterbug44]

Papa Scooterbug's suggestion - make it so they can't raid different funds to pay for stuff.

He was biatching about how the roads never get fixed because his state takes the gas tax money and uses it for whatever they want - balancing the state budget was one example.

Same applies to Social Security, pensions.........

 

[Matt J]

Instead of, like, actually paying down the bridge debt, the Mid-Bay Bridge Authority is using revenue from the bridge to secure bonds for an auxilliary toll road that IMO just doesn't make sense from a revenue standpoint. I can actually understand the logic behind moving the bridge access road eastward to Seminole in order for it to make easier for local traffic to get down White Point Road, but I really don't think that enough of the people who commute southward from Crestview on the MBB are going to think it's worth the extra money to be able to bypass Niceville proper on the way to the beach areas.

And I'm annoyed by the extended project because I think they're going to end up raising bridge fares again in order to effectively subsidize a Niceville bypass that doesn't live up to the revenue projections they used to get bond funding.

It really seems to boil down to a select few not wanting to give up what they consider prestigious board positions. The MBB is one of the reasons that I'm against toll roads, they never die. Their sold as a way to get a needed asset in place and that it will eventually not need the tolls. There are only two tolls that I know of in this state that have been removed the previously mentioned toll and the St. George Island toll bridge.

If you really want a lesson in micro economics read some of the letters to the editor regarding the SGI toll bridge removal, the loss of I think 5 jobs was going to send Franklin county into an economic tail spin.