Privately run toll roads? The horror!
Here they’re turning I-95’s HOV lane into a toll road.
How long before they charge you for starting your car? Oops, I forgot they already do, gas taxes.
Only the govenment could come up with a way to make the taxpayers pay for something TWICE.
Perry says it doesn’t go back on his “promise” that if it is free today it will be free tomorrow, but what do you bet the Lege won’t approve ANY road funding for counties that vote against the toll road recommendations?
Folks, we pay gas taxes out the cazoo to pay for our nation’s highways and upkeep. That’s all we should be required to do. If we allow our government to place tolls on every road in this nation, it’s going to be a form of impeding free access to movement.
Barriers will be constructed. Fees will be implemented. Access will be denied at these bottlenecks at the whim of government officials.
Please, lets not go down this road.
Those interstate highways have been bought and paid for (a million times over) by the American taxpayer. Where the hell does a bunch of govenment bean counters get off thinking they have the right to sell them to private corporations? Those roads belong to US!
I would be in favor of it if it were applied to new freeways, not ones already paid for by the taxpayers.
Yeah...I responded on the thread about the commuted sentence for the convict that maybe Perry wants a get-away man on his side when the voters find out what he has planned for them on toll roads. I didn’t vote for the jerk.
The Indiana formula is have taxpayers build a road, charge them a toll to drive on it, and then sell the road to Australia.
It’s just another tax. Ordinarily I favor `privatization’ but not if I must use something (or take the two-lane being used by farmers driving combines at 25 mph?) that I already paid for, and some NGO is there holding out their hands. It’s similar to the recent `private property for private use’ 5th Amend. travesty, but here, public property for public use, paid-for by the public, every day, over-and-over.
The Right to Travel
As the Supreme Court notes in Saenz v Roe, 98-97 (1999), the Constitution does not contain the word “travel” in any context, let alone an explicit right to travel (except for members of Congress, who are guaranteed the right to travel to and from Congress). The presumed right to travel, however, is firmly established in U.S. law and precedent. In U.S. v Guest, 383 U.S. 745 (1966), the Court noted, “It is a right that has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized.” In fact, in Shapiro v Thompson, 394 U.S. 618 (1969), Justice Stewart noted in a concurring opinion that “it is a right broadly assertable against private interference as well as governmental action. Like the right of association, ... it is a virtually unconditional personal right, guaranteed by the Constitution to us all.” It is interesting to note that the Articles of Confederation had an explicit right to travel; it is now thought that the right is so fundamental that the Framers may have thought it unnecessary to include it in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.
http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html#travel
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
I’d rather the states “buy back” federal grants to schools so we can end this nonsensical federal intrusion into education.
I believe it is very telling that we are discussing this.
What does that tell us?
The airline industry is a horror after 9-11 and all the restrictions, let's take more joy out of traveling on roads too, shall we? /sarcasm
I am serious, if they do not want to work for the their money machine, get rid of them all.
One of these days, our taxes will be 110% of our incomes and we will all be arrested by the IRS and jailed for failure to pay taxes.
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