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"Marvelous! A Texan who understands the socialist mentality of the state's politicians!!! I love it!"

I've lost the battle here. We're getting 4000 miles of these privately funded and operated toll roads. The same company building our first toll road charges 20 cents (US) per mile in Canada for a similar road. Our combined state and local gas tax here in Texas is 2 cents per mile (if your car gets 20 MPG). The company got monopolistic-type protections in Canada against the province of Ontario even widening government owned highways (if they would draw traffic from the toll road).

Just yesterday the Republicans started talking about embedding RFIDs in the registration sticker of EVERY single car in Texas - so as to tell who's uninsured (yep). Meanwhile Republican Governor Perry is sending representatives to a conference to figure out how to use GPS to toll everyone, for every mile they drive.

People may call this garbage the free market or Republicanism, but it ain't the Republican Party that I grew up with.