Highway funding mechanisms are also problematic. State residents pay federal income tax only for the federal government to turn around and transfer highway gran

Highway funding mechanisms are also problematic. State residents pay federal income tax only for the federal government to turn around and transfer highway grants back to the states. It's inefficient and un-American, essentially an end run around how our republic was intended to operate. Let's cut out the middleman and crush the federal government down to its appropriate size and level of authority. It's totally appropriate for the federal government to fund real interstate highways. But there's little real need for them to get involved in most intrastate transportation. This just serves as a backdoor mechanism to exert excessive levels of federal control and waste more taxpayer dollars.