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Related: About this forumGOP proposal to use Postal Service funds to bolster Highway Trust Fund a 'nonstarter,' opponents say
GOP proposal to use Postal Service funds to bolster Highway Trust Fund a 'nonstarter,' opponents say6/2/2014
Rail News: Federal Legislation & Regulation
A proposal by House Republican leaders to shore up the depleted Highway Trust Fund by shifting funds from the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service drew fire from Democratic lawmakers over the weekend.
In a memo to House Republican caucus members on Friday, House Republican leaders outlined a plan to eliminate Saturday mail service and shift those dollars to keep the Highway Trust Fund afloat through May 2015 while they pursue a longer term solution to funding transportation infrastructure.
"We firmly believe that this is the best way to ensure continued funding of highway projects in a fiscally responsible manner that implements a needed structural reform to a growing federal liability, wrote House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Majority Leader Eric Cantor of (R-Va.) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
The Highway Trust Fund, which is funded primarily by the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gas tax, is scheduled to run out of money as early as July. The gas tax hasn't been raised since 1993.
Democrats blasted the GOP plan.
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GOP proposal to use Postal Service funds to bolster Highway Trust Fund a 'nonstarter,' opponents say (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 2014
OP
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(14,583 posts)1. They are the worst kind of predators.
Circling the dead and dying waiting to pick the bones clean. Sickening, to say the least.
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)2. How about making the DoD actually 'do' sequestration?
We've taken our hits: Food Stamps, unemployment insurance, job training just to name a few.
The MIC is spending $$$$$ on new ships, aircraft, drones, Army vehicles, Space Fences, AFRICOM, Special Operations, and all the things you wear out in 13 years of war.
The US Government (Democrats also) has stood by veterans by axing, cancelling, and cutting any legislation that spends money on veterans.
Water contamination, open burn pits, TBI and PTSD has given this generation 21st century problems to rival Agent Orange (my war).
Any government that does NOT take care of its veterans should not be allowed to make more veterans. Period.