all interstates should be privatized - there is zero reason the federal government should be involved with highways.
federal gas tax should be eliminated and interstates privatized
Well, on what terms, those of turning the overall interstate system into toll roads? That’s a perennial libertarian idea, but some works do carry on better as public works.
It doesn’t really bother me to pay tools but there will be no possibility for the working poor to pay them in this case. The HOT lanes will be the Lexus lanes.
“all interstates should be privatized - there is zero reason the federal government should be involved with highways.”
You do understand that toll rates pushing 50 cents per mile and more exist on some already-existing private highways, and more than 20 cents per mile is now COMMON on those types of highways. And that’s just the beginning - once they get their stranglehold on ground transportation, then they’re really TURN THE SCREWS on drivers.
We drive 20,000 miles a year, and I don’t have the extra $4k to $10k laying around to pay those politically-connected oligarchs, but if you do, then more power to you.
I prefer my 2 cent per mile gas tax, as $400 per year is a LOT EASIER for this FReeper to afford.