Alabama

In the kind of areas they're talking about, you can pinpoint exactly where the rich folks live by the quality of the roads. Smooth as glass over there, bust-a-rim potholes everywhere else. Even if the feds (And it would have to go that far up, because the state or county sure as hell wouldn't) ponied up the money, it'd go toward making some connected asshat's life easier.

Or the short answer: Republicans are greedy assholes.

But yeah, I agree with you that it oughta be mandatory.