We have an alternative to your tar snakes her in liberal left Alachua Co, FL: What would you think about giant chunks of missing asphalt and potholes?
And where the county does decide to patch, it's been patched so many times it's a judder board mess. Technically not slippery, I guess, but will rattle your teeth out, bend your rims.
They use tax money to fund public transportation buses that drive around empty a lot of the time.
On and on one 1-mile-long stretch of 4-lane road in town, they shrunk it to a 2-lane road, converting the inner 2 lanes into basically a paved median. Then they decided to put it right back to the way it was. So we got to pay for that, too.
Sorry - I may have just converted this thread to a political thread ... or was it already one?