If you look at the total funds spent on roads, I think you’ll find a healthy federal tax dollar grant involved.
I don’t think states pay out all funds for state roads. The federal government chips in grant money to help.
As I mentioned, the California bullet train is a state project. The feds chipped in too. States apply for and receive funding for these projects.
Try think of it this way, since everything else is fine with you.
When the public pays out hundreds of millions of dollars in tolls each year, those 100s of million of dollars are pulled out of your local economy.
They are not going to retail outlets to help produce jobs.
Some of these concerns are foreign born. Profits leave our nation too.