[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

A toll agency promising to end the tolls is like Lucy telling Charlie Brown that he can really kick the football this time. A toll agency should simply not make such a promise, so that it can keep funding its roads through repairs and expansions. And please, clean up the damned patronage. In Illy-Noy, patronage is a bi-partisan thing (Combine).

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Maudeen]

For sale signs all over Illinois. . . .not many buyers.

[lgjhn23]

Once a politician gains that sweet taste of the OPM drug (other peoples’ money), they become hopelessly addicted.
They will lie, cheat, steal...whatever to hold onto the “drug”.

[dhs12345]

Obamacare was supposed to save me 2400 dollars... it ended up costing me 9,000 more dollars.

LIARS!

[PGalt]

Deceptions made, deceptions kept.

[stars & stripes forever]

Didn’t Illinois sell the toll roads to S. Africa?

[asinclair]

You appear surprised. Don't be.

Look up the history of the 16th Amendment. It was the original "tax the rich" scheme, starting with the 1914 "tax year". Less than four percent met the minimum taxing level.

One taxpayer wrote to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, "I have purposely left out some deductions I could claim, in order to have the privilege and the pleasure of paying at least a small income tax. . . ."

The original tax rate was one percent. Then two percent. Then it went upwards throughout the 20th century.

[Impala64ssa]

I got a collection of old road maps, including a couple of NY Thruway fold outs from the early 60’s. In them they say that the tolls will be removed when the highway bonds and interest are paid off by 1996. HA HA HA!!!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Nothing so permanent as a “temporary” tax.

[Mr. K]

Income tax was originally sold as only 3% of income over $1 million.

This was in the early 1900s when that would’ve been a very small group of rich people.

And now look where we are.

[laweeks]

Ohio’s turnpike was promised to be toll-free in 1983 . . . no doubt about that . . . still waiting for our toll-free turnpike.

[shotgun]

On the toll bridges over the Columbia, they would just “sell the bridge before it was paid off so the “new” owner could reap the profits

[Beowulf9]

I’ve always wondered about tolls. I mean, don’t state taxes supposedly partly go for the upkeeep of the roads? Also, weren’t the state lotteries also to do the same? Why then the need for tolls?

[mass55th]

The New York Thruway tolls were only supposed to be temporary too. Now they’ve removed all the toll booths, and the jobs that went with them, and installed cameras for EZ Pass, or being billed directly. My niece got a bill for a toll charge, for a trip she never took. It was a small amount of money, but if they can’t even properly read the pictures they take, how many other people will be getting billed for thruway travel they never took?

[Kenny500c]

A great example of gummint that nobody needs, invites graft and increases costs for the little guy, yet the voters allow it, so who am I to say?

[Dr. Sivana]

Toll free in ’73.” That was the campaign slogan over five decades ago that promised tolls on Illinois interstates would be a temporary revenue sources.

Not only did they say that when they built them, but Lyin' George Ryan promised to do away with the tolls but doubling the registration fees. He doubled the registration fees, but upgraded the toll booths on I-90, I-88 etc. for I-Pass (Illinois EZ-Pass), ultimately RAISING the rates on the tolls, too, while also enmeshing the booths even MORE into the system.

[georgiarat]

Politicians on Two toll projects in Georgia, one connecting St. Simons Island to the mainland and one in Fulton County that built GA 400 original stretch, tried to extend the tolls once the projects were paid. they lost in court. Today in Georgia we would be stuck with the tolls permanently.

[Pollard]

They did the same thing in Florida.

[cymbeline]

“A toll agency promising to end the tolls is like ...”

I remember when the Golden Gate Bridge loans were paid off. Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think tolls were even reduced.

[Stosh]

Wait until they require GPS devices that report your mileage so that they can charge you for all the driving you do, not just what you do on the tollroads.