[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Toll-road freeze exempts D-FW

Bureaucratic boondoggles should be reversed in Texas Legislature

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[tobyhill]

Yep, they continue with the 121 toll road fraud even though no city or county voted for it and the “gas tax” was supposedly enough to pay for it. It’s just more taxation in a different name.

[MamaTexan]

There are no such things as freeways," he said in a statement last week. "There are taxways and tollways, and for 50 years we have tried taxways that have been underfunded by Austin and Washington and that have left local communities choking on pollution and brimming with congestion."

No, for 50 years government has bowed to Washington, and pi$$ed away our taxpaying dollars in Austin for cushy offices, government vehicles and catered 'meetings'. Perry is just like the rest.

I hope they take a long, hard look into Governor Goober's grab-bag.

[narby]

Rep. Mike Krussee, R-Round Rock, argued that without private toll roads, the state would need to raise the gas tax to pay for roads.

There will be X dollars invested in Texas roads, every dime of which will come from people driving cars in Texas. That money is fungible, which means that people driving on toll roads are paying for the roads of people who don't drive on toll roads. Effectively giving the gas tax money from people on toll roads to people who dont drive on toll roads.

However well-intentioned, the moratorium adopted by the House would eliminate an enormous pool of non-tax money to address traffic and transportation needs," said Joe Krier

It would eliminate money that is effectively borrowed from future toll road drivers that will be given to the state of Texas today. Why not just borrow the money straight up, if the state needs it?