And people believe Texas is the best place to live? Really? I know that property taxes are through the roof and now they are taxing even more roads than the millions they already tax through tolls. Yieks! We dodge a serious bullet getting rid of that horrid Governor Perry as the Republican nominee.
For the past decade, this issue has been a political career killer in Texas.
Look for major players in trying to shove this through to be missing after the next legislatoral elections.
Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, et cetera, et cetera.
— Communist Manifesto, Chapter 2: Tenth Plank of Communism
Don’t get toll roads!!! I live in Washington State and they never go down. When I first moved here just a few years ago, the toll was $1.25. Now it’s $5 and there is a plan to raise it another .25 cents this summer and again next summer.
When the government concretes up the pathways from here to there and charges you a toll fee every time you want to move around, they are wrong, taxes are one thing, but a toll is another.
Coronado (California) loved their $1.00 toll, because they knew that it kept people off the island even though it sounds minor.