The Bangles opened the Sam Houston Tollway with a concert way back in the 80's.
Tollbooths were supposed to come down once the road was paid for. They're still there and with fare increases.
Posted on 10/10/2017 8:10:17 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
We pay massive taxes and the result is poor roads so the gov’t employee gets fat pensions.
The gov’t will NOT lower taxes. The toll road will be another TAX and you can bet some of that money will be siphoned into insiders pockets.
double dipping
That’s all this amounts to.
It’s your wallet folks. If you like paying gas taxes and tolls too, then you should be happy as pigs in slop.
The Bangles opened the Sam Houston Tollway with a concert way back in the 80's.
Tollbooths were supposed to come down once the road was paid for. They're still there and with fare increases.
Forbes is part of the open borders cabal.
I loathe all of these public-private deals, whether it is selling off our existing highways, farming out traffic ticket revenue schemes, selling public streets, handing over the reigns (and revenue) from our parks and convention centers, it is all globalist sweetheart cronyism. Feh.
The one thing Dallas did in the 70s was to take all of the major roads going north and south and turn them into six lanes with a boulevard in the middle. That has done a lot to alleviate traffic congestion across the city.
The only road taxes you pay are gas tax AND tolls.
Roads are a necessity of life and commerce and they need to be paid for, both in terms of actual construction and routine maintenance. Taxing those who use them seems like a reasonable approach to me.
The tolls in Houston are certainly not majority under $1.
“double dipping”
Yep. Taxpayers are merely blood bags for the parasites to feed upon.
Robert Eckels(R) said he didn’t have to obey that because that was promised before he was in charge.
We used to have lighter taxes and at the same time the best roads in the nation. Forty years ago, all that changed. Roads are crap. Property appraisal values are out of control. Property taxes are raised 10% every year resulting in ours going from 2 weeks of income to a whopping 3 and a half MONTHS of income. Our paycheck has never kept up with the taxes. Sales tax has gone from 5 cents to 8.25 cents.
No one wants to pay for roads they've already paid for. It doesn't matter if it takes an extra 3 minutes, I refuse to travel on the new toll road through Austin. Well, I avoid Austin like the plague it is.
You never pay tolls or gas taxes.
If you’re paying a toll, you’re paying both.
Your comment that you only pay gas taxes or tolls was not accurate.
The same was said of the Golden Gate Bridge. That's one reason why I'd rather pay for roads out of my taxes than stop every 10 miles to pay cash or slow down to 5 mph to have my window sensor scanned.
Amen to that! Toll roads will be just another revenue stream for the government. They aren’t there to lower our taxes or provide more value. They are there to fill government coffers.
And guess who’s lobbying for the public-private high speed rail?
They’ll tell you that is privately funded but look at their plans to use public funds to bring it downtown.
I remember the Dallas toll roads 50 years ago. They must have been paid for ten times over - at the very least.
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