The post was tongue in cheek of course.
But if the toll roads are self-contained in terms of funding for repair/expansion how does that constitute a tax vis-a-vis public highways that specifically use gas tax funds?
Your state gets gas tax, vehicle registration fees, licensing fees and probably much more for highways. The federal government returns funds to the state too, that are to be used on highways.
There is no need for private ‘self-contained’ roads.
You’re being gamed here. They are diverting funds to other causes, and you’re being asked to pick up the slack “because the funds just aren’t there”. Baloney.
Yes, highways cost a lot. You sell bonds and you pay them off with the funds I mentioned. That’s how it has always worked until now.
We have five times as many people on the roadways paying taxes we did when most of our roads were built decades ago. And yet those people could afford to pay for highways. We can’t today? Hogwash...
Someone is lying to us big-time.