[minnesota_bound]

We pay massive taxes and the result is poor roads so the gov’t employee gets fat pensions.

The gov’t will NOT lower taxes. The toll road will be another TAX and you can bet some of that money will be siphoned into insiders pockets.

[TexasGunLover]

I pay about $3k in tolls a year here in Dallas, but generally like keeping the rift-raft off so I can get there in reasonable amounts of time. The good news with variable pricing is that as the roads get more congested, you just up the cost and it reduces traffic... Been working great now that I have to drive to Frisco.

No conservative should be against use taxes... they tax those who use the service. The only road taxes you pay are gas tax or tolls.

[bgill]

Their lighter tax

We used to have lighter taxes and at the same time the best roads in the nation. Forty years ago, all that changed. Roads are crap. Property appraisal values are out of control. Property taxes are raised 10% every year resulting in ours going from 2 weeks of income to a whopping 3 and a half MONTHS of income. Our paycheck has never kept up with the taxes. Sales tax has gone from 5 cents to 8.25 cents.

No one wants to pay for roads they've already paid for. It doesn't matter if it takes an extra 3 minutes, I refuse to travel on the new toll road through Austin. Well, I avoid Austin like the plague it is.

[af_vet_rr]

Amen to that! Toll roads will be just another revenue stream for the government. They aren’t there to lower our taxes or provide more value. They are there to fill government coffers.

[momincombatboots]

Exactly! Ridiculous proposition. And the toll roads I have traveled are no better than other roadways... corruptocrat money grab.