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such a provision us this, it would never have been pos-
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sible to dedicate any of the highway taxes because.
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obviously in 1867, no one could possibly visualize the nee<
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for a network of highways such as we have today. Now,
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my feeling is that if you didn't or hadn't had those
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dedicated taxes, you simply would not have the highways
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that you have today. You wouldn't have an adequate high-
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way system because it is too easy to take the funds from
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this lucrative source and use it for other purposes. You
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have many times, well, in the depression years, one time
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they had some major diversion from this when they had to
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take the money for Welfare purposes. You have times when
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the crucial issue is mental hygiene, as existed a number
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of years ago, and it was necessary to build these hospital:
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up, et cetera. This is a very easy source of diversion,
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so if you follow your theory through, if you had had that
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in 1867, you would have drastically affected the growth
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of your highway system. Can you possibly sit here now
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and visualize what 50 years from now may hold or 30 years
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from now nay hold in technological improvements , where you
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night really not even have highways. You might have
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