Posted on 04/11/2015 10:06:44 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A little-noted provision of President Obama’s highway funding proposal would lift the federal prohibition against states imposing new tolls on existing interstate highways.
The GROW AMERICA Act would eliminate restrictions held in place since the creation of the Federal Interstate System, according to a summary of the plan’s provisions, allowing states that receive permission from the Secretary of Transportation to toll existing Interstate highways “in order to make improvements or to manage congestion.”
Since its creation in 1956, interstates have been funded primarily through fuel taxes, with tolls banned on all sections of highway built after that date, according to The Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates (ATFI). The only exception is a 1998 program available to three states, none of which have taken advantage of it to date.
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sure loved the 60’s and 70’s...fun raising my two genius. and life seemed GREAT..
THESE RETIREMENT YEARS HAVE BEEN SO DIFFICULT...
JUST A NOTE..
PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE WILL RAISE THEIR RATES EVERY JANUARY 10%, I GUESS FOREVER...
tolls = tax
They raise the EZ-Pass rate more slowly, and sometimes not at all. It is obvious what they want to have happen (AET).
U.S. taxpayers provide the funding to build our road systems. This funding is then used for the road construction of toll roads. Foreign companies make sweet heart deals with states to win the contracts and collect the tolls for decades. Privatization of taxpayer funded roads that provide revenue for foreign companies is in itself problematic and in some ways supportive of globalism and the annexing of our resources. The political and corporate class have no problem doing this to us.
The interesting thing is will people use toll roads just because you build them? Here in Texas, many newly built toll roads are not being used, and the traffic is packing in even worse than before the toll roads were built. This desire to tax travel on taxpayer built roads may not work out the way the people doing this are thinking. Just like car pool lanes and other attempts to control social behavior, toll roads may in the end become failures.
In CA they may be calling it the “Bye Way”, so many of them are leaving. Guess they are thinking of slowing the Exodus by taxing it? hee hee hee
Think back to Grimm et al......today’s tolls are largely an updated version of the Ogre/Troll under the bridge.
True.. you have to pay to get out of Maryland which in 29 months I’ll do for good when I retire.
Cost me an arm and a leg to go anywhere in the North Eastbut once I leave Maryland and head pretty much anywhere no tolls.. I would never go to Illinois.
The newest twist is the variable toll charge as now exists in northern Virginia on top of HOV regs. Not quite clear as to how the rates are determined but apparently the required EZ pass just pulls it quietly out your wallet. An infinitely variable form of taxation granted to a government agency.
Ah, for the days of the open roads of the Defense Highway System of Eisenhower.
Tax enough already...tolled enough already
Its gonna cost us to drive on the King’s highways!
hey, at least those PA turnpike tolls are funding the reconstruction of the damage caused by the Great Johnstown flood!
MD keeps adding toll roads then having to advertise to get people to use them. They just opened an express on I-95 northeast of Baltimore. Hardly anyone uses it. Looks like mostly guys in company cars and government vehicles who don’t pay the tolls.
Toll roads, and your national ID card (or chip implant) can be used to charge the tolls to your government account. I have seen the future. /S
There’s roughly $100=$150 BILLION per year for the taking from people driving Interstates (figuring on 20 cents per mile times the number of miles driven).
Nice way to increase taxes without saying you increased taxes and I suspect that a LOT OF REPUBLICANS will buy into it, happy to both get out of the highway business and saying that they are devolving operation of the highways back to the states (i.e., 10th Amendment credentials).
Just one question though. If it is such a good idea to let states charge people for driving through on highways they never paid for (and still don’t pay for, given the federal funding for taking care of them), then why not let them charge for air space too? So instead of just TSA, you’ll have to pay a dozen or more extra taxes to fly cross-country.
“This desire to tax travel on taxpayer built roads may not work out the way the people doing this are thinking. Just like car pool lanes and other attempts to control social behavior, toll roads may in the end become failures.”
Several decades ago a large truck plowed through a small town, killing a bunch of innocent people. It wound up that the driver was not in a hurry (an independent) so he took the side highway to avoid the huge toll increase on the Ohio Turnpike. They actually rolled back the tolls somewhat because of it.
Eventually they will simply toll cars the moment they leave their driveway. Newer cars today probably have that capability and older cars will simply be fitted with transponders (and yes, they will watch for cars that are ‘not complying’). It is a scary thing when government knows every movement of yours.
Toll and spend socialists.
License and spend socialists.
Regulate and control socialists.
Tax and spend socialists.
$ocialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
No limit to the plunder by “progressives”, the machinations of unregulated marxists.
Plan accordingly. Enjoy life.
IL is where he learned about tolls. They milk that Tri-State tollway for everything they can. When they built the thing, it was with the understanding that the tolls would be temporary. You probably can guess what happened to that understanding.
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