redpoint5- My point about leftover money was that it doesn't exist and would take completely insane taxes to accomplish. We've been topping off the highway fund with debt since 2008 and need to increase the gas tax just to stop taking money from elsewhere, much less fund anything else.
New Hampshire (not quite a big government poster boy)
just made its move: this morning a 4 cent per gallon tax kicked in. It's our first increase since 1991, and it's for highway work. We're not fans of taxes and we like them to reflect what they're spent on.