TP,
this is so sad it is amusing. If the suggestion is that we would be better off poor I suggest you go visit any third world country without the resources to fund highway projects. Poverty is not a happy state. These are your words.
From your last post:
“If all those projects weren't funded at all, and if road and highway infrastructure were funded at a minimum level, then many more people simply wouldn't have the incomes necessary to afford cars and driving and the US wouldn't be able to give up on mass transit,i.e. because people would have to pool their resources instead of being able to buy one car per person or even per household.”
now for a society that can’t afford roads it is hard to imagine them affording proper mass transit. Still I reject you plea for poverty. Those were your words under quotes not mine. And I know I said it was worthless to quote you but this had to be shown.