White House Wants to Lift Ban on Interstate Tolls

New York Times ^ | 4/29/14 | Ron Nixon

[Nachum]

Washington - Drivers on the nation’s Interstates could soon be paying more to travel. A transportation proposal sent to Congress by the Obama administration on Tuesday would remove a prohibition on tolls for existing Interstate highways, clearing the way for states to raise revenue on roads that drivers currently use at no cost. Congress banned tolls on Interstates in 1956 when it created the national highway system under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The administration said lifting the toll ban would help address a shortfall in funding to pay for highway repairs. The tolls, along with other changes, could provide an

[Nachum]

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[Lazamataz]

Obama: (thinking) “YES! ... another way to eff up the American economy! This is GREAT!!!”

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Nazi ‘RATS never met a tax they didn’t love. Yo! America! Had enough yet? Taxes are the Nazi ‘RATS version of waterboarding.

[onona]

NO NO NO NO NO

[cripplecreek]

raise revenue on roads that drivers currently use at no cost

Ummm

[SandRat]

NO INTERSTATE HIGHWAY TOLLS!!!

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Unless they also scrap the Fed. fuel taxes, they’ll be in for a double taxation fight.

[goldstategop]

Of course, its about paying for Obamacare.

Its a lie the Administration wants to help pay for interstate roads maintenance.

This Administration is addicted to new taxes up the wazoo.

[DManA]

Sell the freeway system, use the money to pay down debt.

[Secret Agent Man]

yeah b/c the huge taxes we pay now to fedgov don’t pay for road upkeep.

[ansel12]

A massive step to micro managing and monitoring our travel. Tolls have a huge effect on reducing casual traveling.

[NEMDF]

Of course, they could not expect the “poor” people to pay for their own tolls, so a program would have to be established for them to get cards with free toll money on them, paid for by the taxpayers.

[cripplecreek]

Lots of nice bike trails and rain gardens going in everywhere though.

[Secret Agent Man]

and 12-times as expensive roundabouts on exit and entrance ramps.

[lepton]

The administration said lifting the toll ban would help address a shortfall in funding to pay for highway repairs.

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Ya mean those “shovel ready” projects you put forth as a stimulus plan and then baselined so it’s spent every year, slimmed but not eliminated by the sequester?

[bluetick]

It’s all about control with these statist enemies of liberty.

[peeps36]

The corrupt idiots in DC want more money to steal and waste. They won’t be satisfied until they control us and all our money.

[Alberta's Child]

Maybe I’m missing something here. I thought the Federal restriction against tolls on the interstate system was already lifted in one of the Federal highway bills in the last 10-15 years?

[JSDude1]

Where in the H*ll has all our money gone that was taken by the “federal Gas Tax”?