Exactly. Toll roads might be nice in theory—you pay for what you use—but in practice it is just another government racket.
I remember when they were planning the I-540 outer beltline in Raleigh. It was going to be a desparately-needed route for commutes between North Raleigh and the southern Wake County suburbs and Research Triangle Park.
As soon as the northern part was built and the North Raleigh residents got their free route, they decided that the southern Wake County residents who had dutifully been paying their taxes could only have their part built if it was a toll road.
And that part of the road is N.C. 540, because you cannot give a toll road an interstate designation without federal permission.