If gas taxes are collected, the states should be blocked from double taxing citizens. I’d like to see this taken up at the federal level, with states demanding toll roads to forfeit any federal dollars for their existing and new roadways.
I am sick of the shell game concerning rights to pass, and double exposure to taxation, for things already paid for.
As gas tax paying citizens, we have paid for the right to have access to our highways.
Don’t even think of charging me to pay again.
Drive IH 35 North from Texas to Minnesota. I believe the entire state of Kansas. Already been done, Feds allow it ... so Texas cashes in.
Hats off the Gov Perry. He sure is making us proud. [sarc}
Don’t bet on it. They love taxes here in blue PA. You fellows down there have to fight this tooth and nail. There is nothing good about tolls. The money is never used for its purported purpose. Penndot here is one big boondoggle. They’ve been working on one stretch of road (rt 30) for TEN years and it is still not done. Route 30 is less than one hundred miles long!
I am not a proponent of increasing taxes, or double paying for anything. But we need additionqal highway capacity really bad, and as of yesterday. Frankly, I don’t see another solution other than increasing the use of toll roads to finance new construction. I-35 has become a virtual parking lot, congested 24 hr’s per day. I have read every comment on this string and I have not seen a valid counter proposal to tolls. All I have seen is “no way”. So, I ask you “no way’ers”, what’s your alternative solution?
BUT, the gas tax money collected has already been spent.....on AFDC payments to illegal aliens.