Posted on 04/20/2024 8:17:09 AM PDT by knighthawk
The concept of tolling drivers entering the state of Massachusetts has angered some Americans - including local politicians.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, 49, was among those to speak out, after the idea was floated last week by Bay State Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt.
The Republican slammed the prospective guidance as ' yet another way to unnecessarily take [citizens'] money,' this time by taxing them at the state border.
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And that’s why it’s in the Constitution.
The United States are a free trade zone by design.
Every damn principality in Europe had a customs office on every road in and out of their rotten little fiefdoms. It was said you could not sail down the Rhine without getting dunned every few miles. It was shakedown town.
It leads to restraint of trade and freedom of movement. That’s why it was Constitutionally prohibited.
New Jersey Turnpike was completed in 1951 before the Interstate Highway Act. I-95 heads towards Wilmington, DE and Philadelphia, PA. While the New Jersey Turnpike starts after the Delaware Memorial Bridge. I-95 converges with the Turnpike near Bordentown, NJ.
Boston beer, beans, and Bruins.
Since it's $4 and there's usually a back up even with EZPass lanes, I cut around it on faster side streets to cross the MD/DE border.
Never trust a woman with a hyphenated last name.
Just another queer who thinks it’s your “better”.
What is it
well this way the Mass voters can’t pile into NH for a night to cast their demon votes without it being on record.
I noticed that, too.
Her eager proposal is extremely naive and is so off the wall ... imo its a DEI moment and self aggrandizement despite why we pay taxes.
lemme guess ...illegal invaders go fer free...
Living in southern New Hampshire, I only go into Mass when I leave Costco in south Nashua and get onto the Everett Turnpike.
It seems unlikely that putting up toll booths at boarder crossings would pass muster if the roadways are substantially funded by the feds. There are exceptions to tolling when the feds don't cover the cost of maintaining bridges and tunnels.
Still shopping in the “wrong” dept. Good grief!
European practices weren’t the reason.
Under the Articles of Confederation, trade was horribly affected by a variety of imposts, fees, tariffs, etc. on commerce among the states.
That’s true, but they inherited all of it from The Old Country.
But you know, it goes back to the beginning of human history. The Egyptians had tolls on their miserable roads back 5 millennia.
Interesting story: the Silverton train in Durango, Colorado was built to bypass all the farms and ranches in the canyons leading up to Silverton. Apparently they charged the miners taking wagon trains of equipment up and taking silver ore down.
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