Sorry man, no lane on any highway is FREE. Period. You pay for those in so many ways. And in so many ways the Highway Fund gets robbed to balance the budget. The taxes collected for roads are one of the biggest scams this government purports on its its citizens.
However to hear someone say a lane, road or whatever else out government, whether local, state or federal, builds constructs and allows to the general public FREE OF CHARGE has the wrong mentality to th issue and I call BS on all those who use the mantra “FREE” when speaking of items from our government. This is the same mentality as the 99% Occupiers continue to have. Wrong attitude.
Nothing in this world is free! Everything has a price/cost and that price/cost is just how much you are willing to pay or how much get ripped out of your hands.
“Sorry man, no lane on any highway is FREE. Period.”
You know I used the adjective “free” to distinguish public roads from toll roads. Public roads ARE free — you don’t have to pay every time you drive on them. Public parks ARE free — there is no admission fee. I don’t have to pay to kit out an individual soldier to defend my freedom — our taxes cover it. Stop pretending you don’t understand this difference.
Nobody thinks roads are “free” in the sense that “we citizens don’t have to pay for them.” Some things the government should do, because everyone benefits. Roads, jails, and armies spring to mind. That’s why we’ve given them the power to tax, to pay for the stuff everybody needs that only government should do.
But when they’re paid for with taxes, they’re paid for, and I get to use it. You don’t get to charge me more than someone else who isn’t driving in that lane that day simply because “nothing is free.” Wrong. I ALREADY PAID.
I don’t have to pay when I call the police to investigate after my car is stolen, but if “toll road” types in government get their way, soon I will. Does everyone see where this “toll road” mentality lies? GOVERNMENT CHARGING INDIVIDUALS FOR SERVICES OUR TAXES HAVE ALREADY PAID FOR.
NO, NO, AND HELL NO.
Oh, and by the way? Private business ALWAYS muscles in on toll road collections. Why is that allowed? Shouldn’t public money collected for the use of public property go one hundred percent back to the public coffers?