[SteelTrap]

As a native Texan, they'll take my toll tax when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. Wanna know how much I despise toll roads? I work in Plano and I drive the service road, with all the lights, every day just to keep from donating to the Man. I got my fill of toll raods when I lived in New Jersey, California and, yes, even my beloved Oklahoma.

I have no problem with tolls as long as there is an expiration date. It is the idea of taxation without representation or taxes redirected to non-road related expenditures that sticks in my craw. Who says it isn't important to vote in local elections?

[BobL]

"As a native Texan, they'll take my toll tax when they pry it from my cold dead fingers."

Amen - but the supports are the people that see the freeways falling behind in capacity and no other solution being seriously proposed. My guess is that they have the several thousand dollars available to spend on the toll roads, so they are dead-set in favor. Unfortunately they also have a lot of political power.

If I had the financial means to ignore my transponder bill - and needed to travel on clogged freeways, I would be tempted to be with them.

I've been called everything short of a Communist on this website because of opposition to Perry's plan, so it's nice to hear from you (and I know that there are many, many, others like you).

[endthematrix]

Re: I got my fill of toll roads

Try Illinois. Our Rat Gov DOUBLED the tolls. Of course you could get an I-PASS RFID transponder that monitors when and where you go via the toll roads (which I hate) but I can't afford my values. I commute and it would cost me $1000 yr in tolls.