Posted on 12/21/2015 12:53:47 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Nanny State PING!
ASSHOLES. THIEVES.
States can not tax non residents - which is precisely what this is.
Indianans can pay the toll - BUT NO ONE ELSE SHOULD.
If you don’t already know: states that collect tolls on Interstates do not use the money for maintenance of the Interstate. They use it for bicycle trails, buses, trains, and assorted other IN STATE projects that have nothing to do with the highway. Additionally we all pay the Federal highway taxes, no Federal road should be tolled.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
The legislators of Indiana - and Maryland and Delaware as well - are thieves who deserve to swing. They violate the most basic principle of the United States.
If that's the case, then I shouldn't be paying Sales Tax at the Denny's in Fairfax, Virginia.
So you refuse to pay sales tax when traveling to other states? Good luck with that.
States can tax anyone within their borders.If you don’t want to pay the Indiana tolls route through another state
I have paid tax - the federal gas tax.
Interstates are Federal roads, NOT state roads.
“Interstates are Federal roads, NOT state roads.”
Actually the States build the interstates highways and they are the property of the state they exist in.
“Interstate highways and their rights of way are owned by the state in which they were built. The last federally owned portion of the Interstate System was the Woodrow Wilson Bridge on the Washington DC Capital Beltway. The new bridge was completed in 2009 and is collectively owned by Virginia and Maryland[50] Maintenance is generally the responsibility of the state department of transportation. However, there are some segments of Interstate owned and maintained by local authorities.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#Financing
“A public authority with jurisdiction over a toll facility shall use all toll revenues received from operation of the toll facility only for [] if the public authority certifies annually that the tolled facility is being adequately maintained, any other purpose for which Federal funds may be obligated by a State under this title” - 23 U.S.C. 129(a)(3)(A)(v)
This is a tax on non-residents to fund state projects.
Read the rest of Title 23. Buses, car pools, recreational trails.
The Federal Interstate System has been financed primarily through fuel taxes, not tolls (with the exception of interstate segments that pre-date the establishment of the Interstate System in 1956, for example: the Ohio Turnpike, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Massachusetts Turnpike and New Jersey Turnpike all pre-date the Eisenhower Interstate System).
This is taxation without representation. It’s obnoxious and intolerable.
Come And Take It.
“Actually the States build the interstates highways and they are the property of the state they exist in.”
This is easy to see when crossing state lines. A good example is on I-10 when driving west from Texas into New Mexico. Road turns into a goat trail.
Nice omission:
About 70 percent of the construction and maintenance costs of Interstate Highways in the United States have been paid through user fees, primarily the fuel taxes collected by the federal, state, and local governments. To a much lesser extent they have been paid for by tolls collected on toll highways and bridges. The Highway Trust Fund, established by the Highway Revenue Act in 1956, prescribed a three-cent-per-gallon fuel tax, soon increased to 4.5 cents per gallon. Since 1993 the tax has remained at 18.4 cents per gallon.
My point stands. They are Federal highways - maintained by States - States which receive Federal funding for this explicit purpose. Funding source by Federal gas tax.
The first toll roads in the U.S. were established in the 1790s. Look up the origin of the word "turnpike."
NSS.
Those road are not part of the Eisenhower Interstate System.
The Federal highway trust fund — financed by motor fuel taxes — is used to build major capital projects on the National Highway System (including the Interstates). The operation and maintenance of a highway after it is built are the responsibility of the state(s) where it is located.
And they receive funding from the Federal government.
Read the rest of Title 23.
These political pigs, Republican and Democrat alike, are starting to use cars like they used cigarettes. They look at them as an endless cash cow. But just like cigarettes, people will and are, using their cars less and less.
State troopers shouldn’t be able to give me a speeding ticket on an interstate highway either, federal troopers should be the only ones able to do that.
(just joshin’)
Druggie Mitch Daniels is the ‘brains’ behind this...he started the ball rolling there by selling off his toll road. Now the CATO types there appear to be salivating.
the gubmint and all the leftists would make every road a toll toad if they could. If The People don't push back this will become a reality.
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