Posted on 11/17/2005 3:10:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
PING!
Works for me, but then again, I can afford it...
Like we don't pay enough in freaking federal gas tax??
I wonder if any lib has come up with the idea of a tax on breathing oxygen yet.
CorridorWatch.org CALL TO ACTION (11.15.05)
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
What a crock! It's like the HOV lanes today. We all built them and then, because the government wants to engage in social engineering we are told that those that fall in in line can use the special lane that we all paid to build. There's no way they can build the roads in the first place withour tax money taken from all of us. The next thing will be the exemptions for the tolls. Government employees will be able to ride in them with "passes" paid for by, guess who.
WE PAY TAX FOR GAS
WE PAY TAX FOR THE CAR
WE PAY STATE TAX FOR THE ROADS
NOW THEY WANT A TOLL ROAD?
It's not a bad idea, *if* the tolls are offset by tax cuts elsewhere. Of course, I doubt that would happen.
They are trying to tax water in Maine.
When I lived outside Washington DC, I always found it amusing that during rush hour, Interstate 66 (the major limited-access highway into DC from the west) inside of the Capital Beltway is COMPLETELY HOV during rush hour in the main traffic direction. You cannot use the highway at all heading into (morning) or out of (afternoon) DC unless there's 3 or more people in the car.
A few times I had to ride the Metro into DC in the afternoons, the Orange Line paralleling I-66, and at 4:30, the outbound lanes--all HOV-3--were practically empty. Virtually nobody was using them. But there were state troopers all over the place to bust HOV violators. Meanwhile, all the non-HOV surface streets in the area--Arlington Blvd (US 50), Lee Highway (US 29), Chain Bridge Road, etc.--were parking lots. And this was a good 17 years ago.
People would rather sit in traffic for 30 extra minutes or more than carpool. It's crazy, as much as we all loudly proclaim to hate traffic, but it's the truth.
Oh, and as for special exemptions? They're already doing it in Kahleeforneeea. Hybrid vehicles can get special decals that allow them to use HOV lanes on the freeway system, even with only the driver in the car. And now the hybrid owners are complaining because the decals are "ugly!" Wouldn't surprise me if they gave hybrid owners a break on tolls if they used one of the automated toll transponder systems.
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Gas taxes and license fees are supposed to pay for highways.
They can take their toll booths and place them on liberal asses, where they have to pay to...
And they're trying to tax views in New Hampshire. Must be a New England thing.
We are still tied to the internal combustion engine, a technology that came a few decades after the steam engine. The steam engine went the way of the horse. Heck, you can't charge $3 for a gallon of water. That's why it's profitable to keep with the old technology. It's time we wean away from gasoline engines and cars tied to terra firma.
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