So I assume that I will get a refund for the pretaxed gas that I use to drive on that private toll road and that the owners of the toll road will pick up the cost for police and highway patrols along their road?
My gas taxes went to Boston to keep Ted Kennedy and John Kerry in office. The states that generate the most fuel tax revenue (CA, TX, and FL) are lucky if they get back 75% of the money they send to Washington.
“So I assume that I will get a refund for the pretaxed gas that I use to drive on that private toll road and that the owners of the toll road will pick up the cost for police and highway patrols along their road?”
The same Govt that charges us twice when we send kids to private school or have no kids would give you *that* sweet deal?!? The same govt that takes away 15% of our ‘incomes’ to give us “social security” when in fact we’d have mroe security if we could opt out of it and save our own $$$ but hog-ties us to that Ponzi scheme?!? Dream on.
Private toll roads are theoretically a great idea, but get politically dangerous since its easy to have the appearance (or the reality) of insider-dealing, where a politically-connected private company gets a nice deal.
As with much in life:
Done right, it works; done wrong, it stinks.