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Toll roads are problematic because they sound real good up front. We won't have to pay out a thing. Our state gets $4 billion and we just pay a toll.

Then you decide to go into the city shopping and it's $2 bucks there and $2 bucks when you come home.

Then you decide to visit the grandparents and it's $2 there and $2 back. The kids want to come and visit you and it's $2 to your home and $2 back.

If you all live down the road from work, it's only $2 to work and $2 home every day.

And then someone decides this worked out so well, we'll sell another section of the road to someone else.

And then it's $2 on the first stretch of toll road and $2 on the second section. And then you return home and pay another four dollars.

As I stated, in Florida you can go through four or five toll booths on your way across the state. That works out to ten bucks each direction.

It doesn't end at one toll road. Once the populace has suckered for one or two or three, it's a given. They put them in all over.

Once the initial fees are received for the highways, the state doesn't get anymore windfalls. Then it's the private concern that gets all the money, while the state continues to get your gas taxes, license fees and registration fees, none of which will go to roads, because folks told the state they didn't want it to.

Soon your family can be paying hundreds of dollars per month for tolls. And it's a fee that will go on top of every other cost of transportation that you now pay.

Now that's a great deal.

Would you prefer people who don’t use the road to pay taxes to support it?

Having driven for years in NY, NJ, Penn, and Conn on the toll roads I am immune to concern about tolls. I went through the usual trying of alternative routes and that is fine if you have all day.