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To: zeugma

I used to work at a place overlooking a tollbooth to a Thruway. They had a full-time employee collecting tolls during the day but at night it was just a coin drop into a basket.

I counted the cars one day, and I estimated that the only purpose of collecting tolls there was to pay the salary of the employee.


13 posted on 12/21/2020 6:39:31 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Mr. K

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Yep, Toll Roads are just a traffic restriction designed to increase and fund gov’t Bureaucracy. Essentially to create white-collar welfare jobs.


16 posted on 12/21/2020 6:56:39 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Mr. K

“I estimated that the only purpose of collecting tolls there was to pay the salary of the employee.

Yep, Toll Roads are just a traffic restriction designed to increase and fund gov’t Bureaucracy. Essentially to create white-collar welfare jobs.


17 posted on 12/21/2020 6:57:12 PM PST by Paladin2
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