At this point why doesn’t the government just bend me over and a** rape me
It would be less painful and over with faster than this slow death by a million taxes:
Motorists traveling across the state of Pennsylvania on Interstate 80 could pay a $25 tax by the year 2010. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission on Friday asked the US Department of Transportation for approval to turn the free and paid-for interstate highway into a toll road for the purpose of raising money for mass transit and other public spending projects. This would be the first conversion of a free interstate into a toll road since the interstate highway system was developed fifty years ago.
“The tolling program would generate revenues allowing a dramatic increase in capital investment along I-80, with an additional $1 billion being spent over the next decade, above and beyond PennDOT’s historic ‘baseline’ funding levels,” the tolling application stated.
source: theNewspaper.com
People on the I-5 corridor better watch out, this idea will be coming here soon; politicians in Washington Oregon and California have never met a tax they didn’t want to impose.
[Note: There is apparently already a fight brewing over "spillover" funding in California where taxes that voters specified should be used to build roads are being diverted but I dont have details. I just heard a bit about it on the John and Ken show yesterday. ]
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August 24th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Call me cynical, but if the California legislature were to pass any such “freeway” tax, non-citizens would be exempt from paying the tax.
August 24th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
This is what bugs me about being asked to pay tolls, etc. I thought I was already paying highway taxes in the form of gas taxes, sales taxes, and various other “fees.”
Toll roads = so the wealthy don’t have to waste their time in traffic.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Judging from recent news, I’m sure there are plenty of those in government who are eager to bend you over, both literally and figuratively.