Tolling done wrong—as government jobs (or public-private partnership jobs, just as bad), to throw a sop to public sector unions that ought not exist.
Does anyone know when the tolls to build the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge paid off the loans taken out to build the bridge?
It was in the 1970s. The tolls are still being charge today, some 40 year later.
The closest thing to immortality on the face of God’s green earth, is government taxation, levies, and tolls.
When someone tells you they need to charge you a new toll, just try to use this rule of thumb.
How did this get paid for during my parents and grandparents life? Why can’t it be paid for that way now? What has changed?
Folks, do we really want to pay hundreds of dollars to drive coast to coast on toll roads? Our parents didn’t have to. Why should we?
We are way to easy when it comes to new taxation.
We've already paid for these highways, we've already paid for the upkeep of these highways, yet politicians want to promise more benefits to unions, come up with ‘living wages’ that are far beyond the median wages in the areas where construction occurs, and they happen to already have run out of our money to do all this with, so the obvious answer is - more of our money to run out of!
How about a use tax for public transportation? Only counts against the tax credits and refunds.
What domestic highway wishes to volunteer to become the the obama memorial highway. The only prerequisite is to be available almost immediately and accommodate at least one crater.
tolls = tax
U.S. taxpayers provide the funding to build our road systems. This funding is then used for the road construction of toll roads. Foreign companies make sweet heart deals with states to win the contracts and collect the tolls for decades. Privatization of taxpayer funded roads that provide revenue for foreign companies is in itself problematic and in some ways supportive of globalism and the annexing of our resources. The political and corporate class have no problem doing this to us.
The interesting thing is will people use toll roads just because you build them? Here in Texas, many newly built toll roads are not being used, and the traffic is packing in even worse than before the toll roads were built. This desire to tax travel on taxpayer built roads may not work out the way the people doing this are thinking. Just like car pool lanes and other attempts to control social behavior, toll roads may in the end become failures.
Tax enough already...tolled enough already
Its gonna cost us to drive on the King’s highways!
Toll roads, and your national ID card (or chip implant) can be used to charge the tolls to your government account. I have seen the future. /S
There’s roughly $100=$150 BILLION per year for the taking from people driving Interstates (figuring on 20 cents per mile times the number of miles driven).
Nice way to increase taxes without saying you increased taxes and I suspect that a LOT OF REPUBLICANS will buy into it, happy to both get out of the highway business and saying that they are devolving operation of the highways back to the states (i.e., 10th Amendment credentials).
Just one question though. If it is such a good idea to let states charge people for driving through on highways they never paid for (and still don’t pay for, given the federal funding for taking care of them), then why not let them charge for air space too? So instead of just TSA, you’ll have to pay a dozen or more extra taxes to fly cross-country.
Toll and spend socialists.
License and spend socialists.
Regulate and control socialists.
Tax and spend socialists.
$ocialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
No limit to the plunder by “progressives”, the machinations of unregulated marxists.
Plan accordingly. Enjoy life.
When states stop sliding the fuel taxes into the general funds (see California) the taxes will repair the roads.
They spend the trillions in highway funds and tolls on welfare programs over the past decades.
They need a new highway tax to replace the highway taxes they’ve diverted elsewhere.