National ID or Bust
Posted by Jim Harper
H.R. 140 would withhold highway funds from states that don’t comply with the REAL ID Act, a national ID law passed in 2005. REAL ID would require states to issue driver’s licenses and IDs to federal standards and comply with federal mandates about sharing their drivers’ data.
Over successive years, non-compliant states would receive less [...]
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Federally Funded Highways – Tolls or No Tolls?
Posted by Jim Harper
Should some federally funded highways be exempted from the collection of tolls? Someone in Congress thinks so.
It seems like tolls are a good way to help see that the people who actually drive on them pay the cost of roads, but there may be good arguments for having no tolls, at least [...]
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