For Good Highways, Use Tolls and Ditch the Gasoline Tax

Townhall.com ^ | March 11, 2014 | Michael Barone

[publius911]

For Good Highways, Use Tolls and Ditch the Gasoline Tax

Just one question.

How will that prevent income from being diverted to welfare, Obamaphones, throw-away school lunches, Medicaid insurance subsidies, Union subsidies, pie-in-the sky alternative energy, Obama propaganda web sites, Community agitation, checks to foreign enemy nations, etc.?

[publius911]

Ditto the Ohio Turnpike.
The bonds were paid off in 1989. The toll booths were supposed to come down at that point. They are still there.

Ditto the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The original 25c toll was enough for eternal maintenance, until the criminal politicians had a "better" idea...

[lentulusgracchus]

You will get the tolls and keep the gasoline tax.

That's what Gov. Rick Perry had/has in mind for Texas. His "Trans-Texas Corridor" idea flopped bigtime, esp. when people found out it was part of some international Big Rich conspiracy to deliver Chinese goods to Ohio Wal-Marts without ever being touched by American workers' hands, until they were physically picked up and inspected by American customers.

The idea was, from China in Chinese bottoms to American ports in sealed containers, then by Mexican longshoremen and truck drivers to an "inland port" and Mexican revenue inspectors in Kansas (or Texas), then onward again by Mexican truck to the Wal-Mart dock in Cincinnati, where it would be offloaded by a Mexican lumper overseen by a Bengali or Hindustani receiving manager and put out on the floor by wet immigrants making $3.00 (after deductions).