Bad Roads cost taxpayers money! Duh! A
report was released that SFGate picked up stating that San Francisco (along with Oakland and San Jose) have bad roads and that winds up costing drivers (who pay personal property tax AKA DMV "fees" for the privilige to drive on the roads) close to US$700 each year in maintenence and repairs.
SF Gate ended the story with a thinly veiled pitch for an upcoming bond measure. The problem is that, as in the story, local governments (ran by spending liberals) have not been maintaining the roads. It's not for a lack of money though. 50% of the money that gets sent to Sacramento in the form of DMV "fees" gets sent back to the county that it came from. That money was originally intended to fix and maintain the roads that vehicles use which it was prior to 1978 when a state initiative uncoupled this revenue stream and road maintenance.
Now, the liberals who run the cities have a lot of money to play with and play they do! To the point that roads are neglected. Then they blame Prop. 13 for the shortfall and the bad condition of the roads (and schools too).
The real problem for both the schools and the roads is a
SPENDING PROBLEM by the liberal left. In a typical county, such as Alameda or San Francisco, there are hundreds of millions of dollars coming in each year from various sources. It is the liberal left who sets the priorities for spending. It is the left wing school boards that spend the money. It is the left wing Boards of Supervisors and City Councils that allocate the money.
As it's been shown in the past, they would rather pay themselves and their union cronies outrageous sums of perks and monies instead of using that money for its true intent. Fixing the roads and maintaining the schools.
But that's life in northern Californa for the moment...
- True San Franciscian,
11:15
