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Once they put a "tracking system" in your car, they'll use more excuses to keep track of what you're doing and where you're going. It's bad enough they're equipping cars with black boxes now. Sounds like the communists have moved into America, and they're chipping away at your privacy and your Constitution.

George Bush has not signed the highway bill yet.
He was supposed to sign it last year. States and Counties use this money to bid on jobs around the state. Most of these jobs are bid during the winter months. If they don't know how much money they've got they can't get their bids out to the contractors. States supplement this money with money from gas tax; and taxes on big rigs. (which already pay mileage tax) Oregon already has some of the highest Road taxes and fees in the country. Oregonians won't raise taxes for their special interests, and instead of doing more with less, the state has been raising their fees. At any point you come in contact with the State of Oregon, you're fees have gone up.
At some point, like California, you start to get a bad reputation, and no one wants to live there. That's one reason so many people live in Vancouver, Wa and commute across the river to Portland, Or.
I moved here for a job 13 years ago. It was nice then, but now we're thinking of moving, and we'll pay taxes to another state that appreciates it.

What a sore subject! You're fired Drty!!