You don't show up at the airport and then discover then discover the price you are going to pay. You know it when you decide to purchase the ticket.
Second this has nothing to do with tolerance of the wealthiest. The poor are not even using that road anyway. This has to do with political corruption, which this being in the swamp should have been your first presumption until proven wrong.
This is not even the state doing this. This is done by a private contractor who discovered a new way to skim profits off of a contract.
-PJ