Friday, June 04, 2004

Don't want to know what's INSIDE the box.

Where has this guy been living the last 20 years?
The chairman of the House transportation committee says new tolls and gas taxes should be part of the discussion on how to fix the state's transportation system.

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"Let's be honest about something. ... We don't have the ability to finance all the unmet needs which exist at present in the commonwealth," Wagner said. "So what I suggest we do is think outside the box."
[emphasis mine]
Is he serious? If new tolls and even HIGHER gas taxes are what pass as thinking "outside the box" up on Beacon Hill, I shudder to think what the legislature would be up to if their thinking stayed "inside" the box.

Such is life in the People's Republic.