Are you williung to pay the taxes they pay for gas in Germany? Gas costs more than $5.00 a gallon there and more than half the price is tax.
For income opportunities for very well-heeled international investors.
The idea isn't just to build toll roads. It's to make all the principal thoroughfares toll roads -- and then sell them to high-roller investors.
Money-runners are desperate for income opportunities. The Bush Administration has been trying to help them out by e.g. passing that law in 2003 that allows the States to convert the Interstates (which we've already paid for) to toll roads -- and then sell them.
That's what it's about. It isn't about taxes for the government, it's about trillions of dollars in rents paid to people who don't need the money, from people who can't afford it, for stuff we already own.
It's a Big Fix and a ripoff, catered by Castle Bush.
Other than that, you can tell I don't have an opinion about this "pigs at the trough stuff". Which, by the way, is one of the reasons the Reagan Democrats are walking away from the GOP.
The Party will be ruined after next year, but that'll be okay -- the GOP will have done its job and will have delivered the goods for its real constituents, the Pigs at the Trough.
(Note: "Access capitalism" isn't capitalism. It's just access.)
They aren't proposing a new tax, they are proposing building new roads and using congestion pricing to finance those new roads, instead of using taxes to build the roads.
It is a way to get more roads without increasing taxes.
>What in the heck do we pay taxes for?<
Jose, Pedro, Arturo, Maria, all need your taxes and they do say, "Gracias, Amigo". No, don't expect them to learn English because they feel they will need Spanish when they are the majority.