Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
Don't you feel its in the best interests of the state as a whole that no city or town has failing bridges or infrastructure ? That's why I support shared funding. If NYC's infrastructure fails it impacts me negatively. It Buffalo's infrastructure fails it negatively impacts me. Why ? Because I am a resident of the state. It is in my best interest that all of our cities and towns are being properly maintained. If some of my money has to go to help fund bridge repair in NYC and road repair in Buffalo that is fine with me.
The transit infrastructure (highways, bridges, tunnels, waterways, etc.) and maintenance thereof IS the responsibility of the state. That ought to be a "given."

If our states, and by extension the Federal government, would stick to their knitting, so to speak, and take care of what they are supposed to (infrasctructure, public safety, education to name a few) and not expand beyond that, we wouldn't have some of the budget issues, let alone high taxes, that we face now. But that's another story.