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To: spokeshave

This is being done in London. It is a way of controlling traffic (travel through downtown London costs more at busy times) and for charging for use (you use the highway you help pay for it).

I don't see a problem with the person who uses the roads paying for the roads. The problem is that the federal government wants to know where you are via GPS.


2 posted on 02/11/2006 11:57:07 PM PST by cowtowney
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To: cowtowney
"I don't see a problem with the person who uses the roads paying for the roads. "

We already do, it's in the tax on gasoline. Are they gonna drop that? Don't hold your breath! And what about toll roads, especially toll roads on roads that have already been built and paid for?

7 posted on 02/12/2006 12:05:24 AM PST by de Buillion (The French have always been there when they needed us.)
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To: cowtowney

The federal and state taxes on gasoline are supposed to pay for our highways. I'll be damned if I'll sign on to additional taxes just because our local and federal governments have diverted the funds from their intended purposes.

Road use fees? Hell NO! Toll roads? Hell NO!

Instead I recommend hanging the nearest public officals that suggest such a thing. And if they're stealing our funds to use on other projects, they should receive the same fate.

This is one citizen that's had it up to here with bait and switch.


20 posted on 02/12/2006 12:28:25 AM PST by DoughtyOne (If it's a "Religion of Peace", some folks aren't very religious.)
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To: cowtowney
I don't see a problem with the person who uses the roads paying for the roads.

This is already being done, it is what the tax on gaoline is suppose to do.

42 posted on 02/12/2006 7:02:58 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN
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To: cowtowney
I don't see a problem with the person who uses the roads paying for the roads.

Which is supposedly what the gasoline tax is for.

45 posted on 02/12/2006 9:14:19 AM PST by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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