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There is never enough money for these greedy, trough-feeding pigs!
Pennsylvania has the second highest fuel taxes in the nation but still cannot maintain or expand its infrastructure that has fallen behind population changes.
We keep hearing promises and see no results.
Of course, they deserve it for insisting on working rather than collecting a government check. < / sarcasm >
then maintain them for 30 years with the tolls covering the costs.
When they push this through for those of you young enough to recall this “plan” wait till the 30 years pass by and wait for the tolls to go away! I predict you will find they will not and in fact they will be far higher than they were at the beginning. The governthiefs NEVER let a funding source go away, NEVER.
Keep voting demo-RAT people, this is what you get!!!!!!!!
Yeah, right. That won't last long. It's $6 to traverse one of the bridges in the Bay Area.
All automatic now - a reader scans your license plate and you get the bill in the mail. Don't know what happens with all the illegals driving cars that are not registered - with stolen registration tags that I pay yearly for.
PA already has the second highest gasoline tax in America. That’s not enough for these POSs. We already pay for our shitty roads via taxes. Now we get to pay taxes and tolls.
PennDOT employees are lazy ass government employees with incredible salaries, benefits and pensions. Have you every seen one work his ass off fixing a road? No. They are always standing around.
They just want another way to keep more of our tax dollars to enrich themselves. We get to pay thrice: state income taxes, gasoline taxes and now tolls.
All westbound traffic, going into PA from NJ, has been paying a toll on the Walt Whitman bridge (I-76) since the early 90’s.
Current toll is $5 for cars/light trucks. Commercial vehicles pay $7.50 PER AXLE just to get into PA.
Tolls are going to be everywhere.
Allegheny County (home to Pittsburgh, and me), used to have tolls on bridges decades ago... Tolls used to be used many years ago (100 years+ IIRC) on several roads.
I used to live in pa. If I recall when the fuel tax was increased a significant portion of that tax was earmarked for port and airport improvements in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. So rather than fix roads and bridges something like 40% goes to things other than roads and bridges. I live in Tennessee now. If I see a pothole or broken road it’s notable. When I lived in pa I noticed if the road was smooth and didn’t beat my car to death. When I visit I don’t see any reasonable improvements in Pennsylvania roads even after several years of the higher fuels tax...wonder where that money went.
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Every crooked privatization deal that has been made between our corrupt politicians and special kickbacks by big donor class business costs us. In the end be it parking, bridges, highway tolls or sewer the taxpayer will end up paying twice as much to unregulated corporate interests than to government, that citizens still have a level of political control. We are giving our public assets away to business interests that are in bed with crooked politicians just as they did that made billionaire oligarchs in Russia.