Potholes on roads across Wisconsin provide jolting reminders the state needs to use its highway fund to fix potholes, according to State Senator Dale Schultz.
Schultz said a proposal to raid nearly three hundred million dollars from the Wisconsin Transportation Fund to fix a giant hole in the state budget, instead of fixing our state's roads, is a "terrible" idea.
Schultz said delayed road projects can make roads less safe for everyone. He said borrowing money to pay for roads is like a person paying the home mortgage with a credit card - it creates a debt problem for years to come.
Schultz said the Governor and many legislators are in denial over the state's transportation funding crisis that has reached a shortfall of over seven hundred million dollars a year. For his part, Schultz said he will support using road dollars to fill potholes, not to fill the state budget hole.