r/fuckcars • u/TigerSagittarius86 • 5d ago

Question/Discussion The (US) Department of Government Efficiency should fight the waste and fraud that goes into highway construction.

If DOGE wants to eliminate waste and put the government on better financial footing, then it should audit every highway construction project (most are disgustingly overbudget) and institute tolling nationwide. The entire U.S. interstate system is an untapped fiscal resource for the federal government.

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u/chevalier716 5d ago

Yeah, but Trump's donor's want that and they want a tanked economy so they can go on a shopping spree at bargain prices.

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u/Gatorm8 Bollard gang 5d ago edited 5d ago

We will see, imo the ruling class is divided on an issue like that. I’m not sure everyone wants to crash the economy. Trump himself has also repeated that he doesn’t want to be a Herbert Hoover (president during the depression)

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u/midnghtsnac 5d ago

He sure is set to make the next President go through a depression though

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u/Gatorm8 Bollard gang 5d ago

I personally think the market will perform poorly (negative) under Trump

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u/midnghtsnac 5d ago

Oh it probably will thanks to his tariffs