Thanksgiving time is here

Are you suggesting these people sit in their houses with something from qdoba and facetime with mom and dad for thanksgiving?

Also, time to tax the New Hampshire-ites who use our roads every day to commute to MA (because of the lack of jobs in the 'tax free' paradise that is the Granite State).

You do realize that people who commute from NH for MA jobs pay MA income tax? And as many have pointed out here over the past few years gas taxes alone don't cover infrastructure maintenance.

The state cannot put tolls on a federal interstate highway. Where tolls exist on them are generally from toll roads that were state highways later incorporated into the Eisenhower system.

That's a remarkably political definition of indexing. I think I better one might be: The size of the revenue stream grows at roughly the same pace as the cost of the things it needs to purchase. As the history of the gas tax in MA (and the country) shows pretty clearly: The public views ordinary cost-of-goods increases in the gas tax with suspicion, and all of the various libertarian interest groups will take the opportunity every single time to try to convince everyone that we don't need to buy that infrastructure in the first place. The net result: Every year infrastructure continues to get more expensive (in fixed dollar terms) and every year the gas tax gets weaker. So congratulations: This one tax gets extra super scrutinized every year, and as a result, our roads, bridges, and trains are crumbling beneath our feet.

I wonder if these groups would ever support a similar measure to forbid the transfer of funds from the general fund to the highway fund. I suspect not.

Mass. spends more per mile to maintain their roads outside of New Jersey.

I should certainly hope that Mass. is maintaining its roads outside of New Jersey. Maintaining them inside New Jersey, which would include shipping the roads to New Jersey, working on them there, and then shipping them back to Massachusetts, would be prohibitively expensive.

1) Everything in MA costs more, private sector businesses included
2) Snow removal
3) Our highways are among the most urban in the country. Urban highways are, mile for mile, much more expensive to maintain mostly because they get used more.

When you do this comparison on the basis of vehicle miles traveled and you compare us to states with a similar cost of living, we're basically the middle of the road.

TL;DR: This story was originally published in response to numbers put out by a libertarian think tank with a history of anti-government rhetoric with predictable results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Airways_Flight_30