Isn’t that the truth. Here in SE VA, they are not only pushing the light rail scheme at all cost, but governor McTollbooth is erecting tolls all over the state except North of Fredericksburg where the bureaucrats in Northern Virginia will continue to skate free at the expense of everyone else. He already has 2 tolls going up in Norfolk on existing free roads and he is scheming to toll all the bridges and tunnels in the area and all the interstates from the NC border to Fredericksburg.
I heard Governor no-tax-utopia PPP-head only wants to toll I-95.
I normally don’t support tax increases, but raising the states gas tax to equal its 1987 value (which would mean doubling its nominal value) might be in order here, to avoid so many tolls and PPPs from Governor Norquist-Tax-Pledge-Like Man.
(Full disclosure: I would support the proposed increase in Maryland’s state gas tax if Martin O’Moron didn’t spend so much of it on (A) balancing the general budget and (B) mass transit schemes.)