Posted on 06/05/2017 6:48:49 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Dear Tom,
Shut up.
Love, Laz
Toll roads would hit electric cars the same as conventional engine cars.
Electric cars don’t pay any gas taxes.
...asks toll radio.
No, toll roads are most certainly the wrong answer as is the stupid pay for use at the pump proposal.
One of the things that is making tolling more attractive to state governments is that it offers a mechanism for collecting revenue from people and businesses outside the state who otherwise wouldn't be paying any taxes in that state. This is especially true in smaller states in the Northeast. In many vehicle models you can probably drive from Maine to Maryland on I-95 on a single tank of gas -- a trip that will cover ten states. It's ludicrous to suggest that the taxpayers of those states should foot the bill on their own for the maintenance and repair of the road.
Can the funds be kept out of the state’s general fund and the operation of the roads lept out of the hamds of commercial interests both foreign and domestic?
“Anything that requires the users of a public product or service to pay for it directly is a good thing”
Then privatize them completely, sell them to the highest bidder and get the government completely out of the road and road maintenance business.
Make the government pay for using the roads same as everyone else.
Privatize traffic enforcement get government out of that business.
If you do it, do it right. Don’t simply give government access to a new revenue stream. Save us money.
Interstate highways have long carried oit of state travellers. The trucking industry that uses them pays fuel taxes and possibly through licensing fees.
Also those gas funds go out of state and are then divided up by the federal government.
That’s a tough lift, mainly because private industry can’t run a highway system as cost-effectively as the government for a number of reasons. This is being demonstrated in most of the cases where toll authorities cut deals with investors for long-term leases on these assets (the Indiana Turnpike, for example). There’s a reason why it’s almost always foreigners who invest in these things: American investors were smart enough to steer clear of them.
Federal and state fuel taxes are collected separately. The states don’t pay any of their state fuel taxes to the Federal government.
Toll roads are always the wrong answer.
The toll should be like a slot machine. Then when you drop your coin in and at least you have chance of hitting the jackpot.
The concept is to charge people money for use of the roads in order to get them out of their cars and into public transit.
That's you, you know.
Toll roads kill tourism.
Tell that to all the people who sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Garden State Parkway every Friday afternoon in the summertime, driving down to the Jersey Shore.
“That’s you, you know.”
That’s not what they think.
The government take gas tax revenue and uses it for other purposes. They would do the same thing with this revenue.
Nope. Privatize it all, or live with the revenue from the gas tax.
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