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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
not to worry folks. illegals will get a pass on the toll. want a free pass? just let an illegal to drive you over the state border. easy peasy.
Monica’s buttons are on the wrong side of her shirt and jacket.
“No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports,...”
Should make the fees for electric vehicles higher than pickups due to more road wear if they are going to do this.
“...nor shall vessels bound to, or from one state, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.”
This is really nothing new. If you take I-95 through about 15 miles of Delaware you get a toll near the border. If you must have tolls at all, it makes sense to charge the people using your roads who are probably not buying your gasoline.
If you overdo it, people will take side streets to avoid the toll. I grew up in Wallingford, CT, and we had a toll booth on the Merritt/Wilbercross parkway that we never paid. If we were going North, we got on at Yankee Silversmith, if South, the Masonic Home. I never went through that toll booth until I was in my 20s and was passing through.
So glad I got out of there.
Mentally ill women shouldn’t be in positions of authority.
I dont know if i can oppose this. I’ve advocated for years that drivers from any state that doesn’t honor a Texas License To Cary a handgun should be required to stop at the Texas State line and be issued a temporary driving permit.
This kind of law may get some Texas legislators busy on our own entry rules.
Has anything good ever come out of Massachusetts?
The entire northeast corridor from Maryland and up is off limits to me by choice. I’m retired and there’s nothing up that way worth seeing at the risk of my life.
Boston Cream Pie
A state I never ever plan to be in. They can rot.
But NH setting up its tolls just over the line from MA?
That’s been the deal for decades! (With state-owned liquor stores just over the border, luring MA residents up for cheap booze.)
Another Didn’t Earn It hire.
“If you take I-95 through about 15 miles of Delaware you get a toll near the border.”
I never understood how Interstate 95, free for hundreds of miles, suddenly becomes the “New Jersey Turnpike” with a toll every mile and a half. I already feel like I know enough WRT the hyphenated woman running the show in Delaware.
No seriously, that is a female?!
Nobody wants to go to Masshole country anyway.
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