Posted on 04/29/2014 6:24:18 PM PDT by Nachum
Washington - Drivers on the nation’s Interstates could soon be paying more to travel. A transportation proposal sent to Congress by the Obama administration on Tuesday would remove a prohibition on tolls for existing Interstate highways, clearing the way for states to raise revenue on roads that drivers currently use at no cost. Congress banned tolls on Interstates in 1956 when it created the national highway system under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The administration said lifting the toll ban would help address a shortfall in funding to pay for highway repairs. The tolls, along with other changes, could provide an
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Will a photo ID be required to use the Interstate?
Oh wait, it already is.
Never mind.
Loads of dripping sarcasm, off.
I say interstate tolls for rich white people only
A ban on tolls on the Interstate? Isn’t I-87 through New York a toll road?
Well, shoot! I had a “shovel ready” comment, and you beat me to it. I hate it when that happens. Well done, though.
I will file this with Senate Dems (w McCain and Grahamnesty) internet purchase sales tax enforcement Fairness Act that Reid passed.
If states and our federal government spent less on benefits/tax breaks for welfare that ensnares the poor in dead end, non working lives and less on tax breaks for industries that are not economical without gov’t help [solar, wind, electric cars], plus lifted regulations which throttle businesses [EPA, OSHA, minimum wage, Dodd/Frank, etc.], there would be more tax revenue available for roads & infrastructure.
We use roads we don’t pad for?
WTH are the taxes we pay for these roads....?
Women and Minorities hardest hit!
they’ll be in for a double taxation fight.”
And that fight will be launched by whom? Not anyone in Congress that I know of.
In a town near me they approved $2 million from transportation funds to tear down a concrete wall they never should have built in a county park. Fortunately the outrage was loud enough they decided to look for the money elsewhere.
In another example was when Carl Levin was trying to get millions in transportation money to save Tiger stadium in Detroit. His justification for seeking transportation money? He wanted a bus stop built in.
So, what are those things I pay in Ohio and Indiana on I-80?
We are paying Federal tax on gasoline to maintain them; they are not “free.”
So where are the toll booths to be located, at the state borders? Make us like old Europe or like the eastern block?
“your papers please”.
guess this is more of baraq’s flexibility at work.
We also breathe for free, according to their logic.
Gad that fella is annoying! Kill him already.
Then the whole country can be just like the People’s Republic of Maryland. I’ve lived here for four years. In that time, Bridge and tunnel tolls have doubled and the maggots in the General Asylum instituted a sales tax on gas. When fully implemented, it will be 6%. Yeeehaaa
he needs to get his fingers out of every dadgum pie.
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