Override of Highway Bill
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I have a question about the important highway measure passed over a presidential veto.
If the bulk of the funds--$76.4 billion out of $87.9 billion--comes out of the Highway Trust Fund fed by gasoline taxes and other revenues earmarked especially for highway and mass transit and not from the general Treasury, how can it be a “budget buster” as Reagan claims?
Bet you 10 to 1 that if the bill had been presented for the specific purpose of raising the $312-billion military budget there wouldn’t have been a peep from Reagan about budget busting.
SHIRLEY WOLF
Santa Monica
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