Posted on 04/30/2014 8:05:46 PM PDT by DBCJR
Ever driven down I-95 in Maryland, or the New Jersey Turnpike, and parted ways with $10, $20 in tolls?
If the Obama administration has its way, highways across the country could someday be that way.
In a major shift for how governments fund transportation projects, the administration wants to let states charge tolls on interstate highways. A federal ban currently bars states from doing so in most places, but the latest White House push could change that.
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Because they have to be rebuilt, due to wear and tear and lack of capacity for increased traffic.
Oh my, can one not just see the back ups?
Actually, the tolls would probably be electronic, with people whizzing under the gantries at highway speed. No TSA.
Now, I suspect the TSA could start showing up at rest areas, molesting hapless drivers who just wanted to pee.
Though liberals always point to the interstate highway system as a great achievement of government, they hate the freedom that those roads and the cars that drove on them symbolized.
Not likely, since highway-speed electronic tolling would probably be the choice of any toll project.
Which of course is what the gas taxes we pay are for.
They are toll lanes designed to collect revenue for road maintenance because cars are getting better mileage, thus less excise tax.
The most efficient tax collection is to increase the excise tax but Congress is afraid to do that.
Not likely. This is more akin to the tax revenue generated from cigarettes. Fewer smokers, less revenue. More fuel efficient cars, or worse, electric, less revenue.
Barack the Kenyan and his ‘RATS have to pay for ObamaCare somehow.
Been on any of the toll roads around Orlando. My guess about a third of the cars do not have toll e cards. These are not heavily traveled roads so the back ups are minimal. Put those same tolls on 95 wherein the toll system is state run and a good deal of the travelers are from out of state and my guess would be there will be back ups from Miami to Virginia during the late evening hours, during the day, everyone will be on US 1 to avoid the parking lots.
Ha, I can see it now. Drivers in state will get a rebate but only those with out of state plate will have to pay - unless they are leaving
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If you like your free interstate highways, you can keep your free interstate highways.
License plate scanning will make this possible.
If you don't pay up, no license renewal for you.
If property taxes were eliminated, I might sign up....
i might sign up.
I forget the double and triple taxation folks don’t count any of the taxes or fees that we pay that add up from anywhere from 20 - almost 50 of our income % in local taxes, oil & gasoline taxes, income tax, property tax, luxury taxes, phone taxes, oil dumping fees, vehicle registration fees, vehicle inspection fees, etc...
If you can afford your car, you can keep your car.
And even if the bike paths, mass transit, streetscapes and all the other rot were taken out of the gas-tax supported HIGHWAY fund, 18.4 cents/gallon would still not be enough to support what needs to be done, thanks to inflation and increased fuel mileage (thanks, CAFE). So you can either raise the gas tax, or simply eliminate it and the highway fund and return all responsibility for transportation to the states.
Of course, you might want a remnant gas tax of a few cents a gallon to pay off all the GARVEE bonds states have issued to build transportation projects.
...but a local towns speed trap, ticketing over 75 mph was struck down? Hardeyville, SC.
Taking a Toll: Administration wants to let states charge on interstate highways
No, No, No and NO!
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