[cgbg]

If tolls paid for highways and nothing else there would be a logic to them.

However, the CT legislature could never keep their sticky fingers out of a box of chocolates. :-)

[Enchante]

HA, yes, in Pennsylvania the pols have milked the PA Turnpike tolls for $5.65 BILLION toward non-turnpike expenses (mass transit and other roads/bridges) in the past decade. I always wondered why the PA Turnpike is in such crap condition, until I learned that so much of its toll revenue is taken away from turnpike maintenance:

"Since 2007, the turnpike has turned over about $5.65 billion — about $2.25 billion to the state motor license fund for road and bridge projects and $3.4 billion to the public transportation trust fund for mass transit systems like the County of Lackawanna Transit System, the Luzerne County Transportation Authority and Hazleton Public Transit."

[vette6387]

“If tolls paid for highways and nothing else there would be a logic to them.”

Yeah, but as we have learned here in California, they pass new taxes for road construction then, build bike lanes and pay for illegals with the money, then come back at the driving public with another bite saying the last bite “wasn’t enough.” The RATs here are already running on borrowed time. California will collapse financially, because the great unwashed illegal cadre here is now being allowed to vote, and they will vote the state into insolvency in the next few years.

[rlmorel]

Boy, I read this and immediately thought the same thing.

I would not trust those people to use those funds only for highway maintenance.

I fully expect them to fund gold-plated healthcare and outrageously generous pension benefits to unionized state workers.

Count on it.