In 1989 two men in North Carolina started a highway trust fund in North Carolina. It was to be funded entirely by fees of users of highways -- gas taxes, vehicle sales, and title fees. That money was to be used entirely to build urban loops and widen four-lane highways and interstates -- a process that would benefit all citizens of North Carolina.

Over the past decade, however, Democrats in the General Assembly voted each and every year to take money from the highway trust fund and use it for, well, anything they wanted to -- like welfare, schools, and even personal slush funds for certain legislators.

The two men who created the highway trust fund have been suing the government to get the government to actually do what the law says and what the trust fund claimed it would do. However, they are losing.

Now, they're not losing because they're wrong -- according to the Court of Appeals, they don't have standing to bring suit! The court said that they didn't have any standing to sue because they were not injured by the transfer of funds.

In other words, according to the courts in North Carolina, Legislators are free to break the law and the citizens who elected them cannot challenge those lawbreakers unless they have been physically injured.

The raiding of the trust fund, and the total breakdown of all state roads will continue as long as the Democrats are in charge in Raleigh.

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