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Ed, I agree congress has the power, and that the founders did not all agree. However you have to remember what helped to spark the revolution were taxes, taxes on everything. So it was a big beef with the founding fathers, which as I have quoted, implored us to be careful with our spending. The first rule of economics is “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” or TANSTAAFL. The money for a HSL has to come from some-where, if not from the people as investors in it, from the people as taxes. Many people, myself too often included, forget that the government is a non-profit organization; their money is our money. While we are usually wise with out own money (because it is ours), the government seems to be quite careless with it (because it isn’t there’s). True no one can ever no what the founding father’s would think about it. I do know that the founding father’s started this country on a common law system; meaning people have god given rights, and should follow these two fundamental rules. 1. DO ALL YOU HAVE AGREED TO DO 2. DO NOT ENCROACH ON OTHER PEOPLES OR THEIR PROPERTY. Government can break these, but should do so only when absolutely necessary. As to a HSL being viewed similar to a road, you may be thinking along the lines of a false premise. Everyone uses roads. Only a (sadly) slender amount of the population would use a HSL, everyone else is helping to pick up the tab, though. A tax increase is the only way the government could come up with enough money (our money) to pay for it. The founding fathers left personal opinions aside when the constitution was written, so it was left up to congress. I believe it could be considered for government funding, if it can be proven to be economically feasible, and used by enough people to make it a worthwhile public investment. I am not an expert in those matters, so I would like to see the opinions of some before I would decide for certain, but I haven’t seen that proof yet. All right Murphy back on track, railroad track that is[:D].
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