By David Edwards
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul doesn’t want to abolish
the Department of Transportation, but he said on Tuesday that the agency
really only needed “one guy and a computer.”
During a town hall event in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the Texas
congressman made the case for “user fees” for national parks and the
federal highway system.
“Ideally, you can come up with all sorts of schemes about private
highways and all, but that’s not going to happen,” Paul explained. “But
we do have a user fee with our gasoline tax. Trouble is, they take that
money then they spend it on something else.” READ MORE
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