Because those who buy gasoline are the same people who use the roads, the gasoline tax might be viewed as a fair way to pay for this government service.
To be fair, the solution environmentalists prefer - cutting ties between the lakes and the Mississippi - would mean reconfiguring some 70 miles of canals and rivers.
If we were to sustain a culture of probity and fairness in the community our education efforts should commence in the formative years of our younger generations.
But it is obviously very simplified, having a whole language represented by just one branch on a tree doesn't really do justice to all the variations within that language.