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.
We only have very few toll roads in California. I believe it’s under three, perhaps just one.
Right now they are trying to introduce them because state officials have spent tens of billions of dollars they didn’t have, and they’re desperate.
Will they cut liberal pipe dreams? Hell no. They go for basic services and force toll roads on us.
It’s a massive tax and I am pissed off over it.
I am because I know damn well that in five to ten years, the tolls won’t be enough either. They’ll need more money and the tolls will go up or there will be more toll roads. Or they’ll sell the roads to private concerns for a pot of gold, and we’ll still be paying until the fifth generation for something we owned at one time.
When that isn’t enough they’ll find another way to tax us.
I want to draw the line in the sand now.
We have prop 13 out here, which prevents the state from raising property taxes, or perhaps it’s actually the local tax assessor’s office. At any rate, guess what they came up with. It’s a property tax surcharge, because they can’t raise the taxes.
These jerks are trying to rip folks off again, and again, and again... and we always let them.
In Los Angeles County we pay 8.25% sales taxes. On to of that citizens pay state income tax. On top of that they pay every other tax under the sun that the government can come up with. And not it’s going to be toll roads too, and that doesn’t sit well with me.
Sorry to take it out on everyone else, but for the life of me I do not understand agreeing to more taxes as much as we hate them.