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About your article “Where are your gas taxes going?” my recollection is that silly boondoggle ‘infrastructure bank’ hijacked by Charleston politicians was supposed to be a special deal only for big projects, not every day needs.

SCDOT was doing fairly well considering they had only 50% of the buying power of what they had in 1976, thanks to the pitiful folk in the General Assembly who thought there was such a thing as a “free road.” There isn’t.

The bottom line: I don’t understand why SCDOT isn’t simply allowed to use the extra buying power to do what they do best. They don’t need the high stakes poker game decisions by the Charleston clan talking “leverage” by promising the next generations’ tax dollars without concern they may need to use the dollars on roads they use. I was tickled to see South Carolina picked out as a positive example.