you want high tolls ? let the gov‘t continue to run the interstates
Vote for extortion. Pay for extortion.
>> Connolly said tolls were necessary to capture revenue from out-of-state residents who use Connecticut’s highways.
I-95 would be that route which is paid primarily by federal tax revenue. So what exactly is this bitch complaining about? Local deliveries?
Until we can actually ask the right questions and demand the correct answers whether they are politically correct or not this entire nation-wide debacle of “not enough highway money” will continue.
The answer is as obvious as an elephant standing inside the state and federal capitols.
Highway infrastructure, like power and water, is a principal lifeblood of a large country like ours. Other state and federal programs MUST BE CURTAILED until adequate money to maintain and upgrade critical infrastructure is met.
We CAN do this. We SHOULD be doing this. But the shell game of political money has become so out of control that the entire highway budget system from federal to state level is nothing but a corrupt mess used to pry money out of various agencies and an excuse to forever raise taxes for things that were already supposedly taxed to pay for a hundred times over.
There has to be some way to at least temporarily turn back the clock on the gaming of highway money or maybe just stop the abuse of funds in this one area for a few decades. The roads are falling apart. We need a Trump level shakeup of this system. An exposing of the swamp. A real audit of what needs to be done, and what it should ACTUALLY cost to get it done and how long.
The rest of this is just the noise the politicians want you to hear year after year so the game keeps going.
How long until they start charging us for breathing air?
Hmmm...
Proponents of increased spending: Let’s see a graph of highway funds spent in CT, per capita, adjusted for inflation, for the last 50 years. If that starting point is “odd”, for some reason, repeat, going back 55 or 60 years.
“The Connecticut Mirror” - no need to go any further.
This direct tracking and mileage tolling drive will be the end of America.
I’ll go down swinging.
TOLL ROAD IS RENT
The road is finished, done built.
Maintenance is minimal.
Toll is rent. Rent drains your savings.
Toll steals your pension money and gives your retirement to a Govt union worker.
Toll is a scam.
Move away. Keep your own pension.
The gas tax was supposed to pay for the roads. A billion dollars in revenue from gas taxes. Where’s that money being spent?
Really, tolls and raising sales taxes... Connecticut, if you vote Dems, you really are brain dead. (Smith has a great idea, return the Whalers).
Connect-icut holding drivers hostage...
Paying a second time for roads already funded by taxes? Nope.
State DOTs/DOHs are the epitome of government bloat.