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To: Wneighbor
You know it... that's what I detest most about the East coast. (Sorry bout that all ya eastern hobbits...) It's like they don't even *notice* tolls out there. They're totally conditioned to them now and they don't notice.

Somehow it has to occur to people that it is merely a device to fund local corruption with a ready supply of utterly untraceable cash.
1,002 posted on 03/17/2004 7:01:07 PM PST by Ramius
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To: Ramius
I don't think we have ANY toll roads in Vermont. They're all over in Southern NH, though. I hates 'em. For one thing (and I know this is sad) I don't really have much depth perception (part of the reason heavy traffic freaks me out) and I have a really hard time getting the coins in those little things unless I get so close my tires rub.

But I've only had to drive down that way once or twice in the last few years, so most of the time I don't have to deal with 'em. Yay!
1,007 posted on 03/17/2004 7:05:17 PM PST by RosieCotton (Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Ramius
I'm getting more and more disgusted with the emergence of "toll roads" in Texas cities. It's like - they forgot how to be Texan anymore. That stuff don't go with this place. And I don't like it one little bit!

hehehe... but it is Texas, and I do know how to go around the ones here.
1,012 posted on 03/17/2004 7:09:01 PM PST by Wneighbor (Well the view looks better from ahead than it looks behind)
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To: Ramius
"Somehow it has to occur to people that it is merely a device to fund local corruption with a ready supply of utterly untraceable cash."

That's not too far off from a good description of taxes in general: money confiscated by government and politicians from the citizens, to be used to finance a rapid increase of power needed to arbitrarily control the same citizens, in the best interests of the state.

1,021 posted on 03/17/2004 7:15:04 PM PST by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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