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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by baddox on Monday July 21, 2014 @04:04PM (#8065695)
> This is due to Republicans in Congress blocking an increase on the gas tax, currently at ~18 cents/gallon of gas since 1993.

Maybe so, but that's not the point. I'm just challenging the claim that government (which includes Republicans) effectively performs those tasks.

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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by toomuchtodo on Monday July 21, 2014 @04:09PM (#8065717)
I'm arguing local government can deliver services effectively to its citizens in almost all but a hand full of cases.
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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by baddox on Monday July 21, 2014 @04:53PM (#8065933)
I missed that in your argument. I would still challenge that claim, especially when it comes to roads, which get a ton of funding from higher level governments and are still pretty bad.
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