LaRouche Declares: Pay-By-The-Mile Report Authors are "Clinically and Criminally Insane!"

July 8, 2009 (LPAC)--The members of the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission, which has called for taxing drivers by the mile driven, are "clinically and criminally insane," Lyndon LaRouche stated today. The Commission's report, which we reported on here (http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10959), reflects both abysmal incompetence on economic matters and a shockingly fascist mind-set. LaRouche said that, as a public service, we should identify the members of the Commission which produced this piece of British Empire excrement:

Robert D. Atkinson (Chair) --President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Washington, DC

Martin Shultz (Vice Chair)--Vice President, Government Affairs, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona

Donald F. Carmody, Director, Two Rivers Financial Group, Mount Pleasant, Iowa

Jeffrey C. Crowe, Chairman of the Board, Landstar System, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida

Mark Florian, Managing Director, First Reserve Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut. Formerly a managing director with Goldman Sachs.

Bryan Grote, Principal, Mercator Advisors, LLC, Mount Airy, North Carolina

Bill Kennedy, County Commissioner, Yellowstone County, Billings, Montana

Mike Krusee, Representative, Texas House of Representatives, Austin, Texas

Craig Lentzsch, Chairman, American Bus Association, Dallas, Texas

Dana Levenson, Managing Director and Head of North American Infrastructure Banking, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Chicago, Illinois

Adrian Moore, Vice President for Research, Reason Foundation, Los Angeles, California

Kathy Ruffalo, Government Affairs Consultant, Ruffalo and Associates, LLC, Washington, DC

Elliot G. Sander, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, State of New York

Zack Scrivner, City Council Member, Bakersfield, California

Geoffrey S. Yarema, Partner and Infrastructure Practice Group Chair, Nossaman LLP, Los Angeles, California

More information about the NSTIFC, and its report, can be found at http://financecommission.dot.gov/

johhhoefle@larouchepub.com