Stupid people paying for the same patch of road over and over, while paying gas and local taxes over and over ping.
Why are they stupid? What choice do you have? Most states have tolls and many many more roads will become tolls as states try to find other monies to run the states. This is actually a thing I sorta like because it makes EVERYONE pay regardless of status...even welfare folks have to pay and I seriously like that.
Problem is that the money they are using to pay is already money they took from you and me. It just shuffles the redistribution into another [no] value added markup column wherein government further reduces it's efficiency.
Here in Georgia, there is only one toll road I can remember that was constructed, as a toll road, from the beginning - Georgia 400 - from rich white neighborhoods NE of Atlanta. It's intended lifetime was reached, yet even our Republican Governor squeezed out a pathetic excuse to keep the tolls.
We now have a toll lane on I85, a road built by tax money, not toll money, and its cost is based on usage, JUST FOR REVENUE....TOLLS are just that - another way of saying taxes. ANY Tax is bad, and they should be fought against to maintain the absolute minimum cost to the taxpayer, not government's aggrandizement and continued revenue stream 'just to run the states'.
Familiarize yourself with the Sunshine Bridge in Louisiana. It was originally a toll bridge across the Mississippi River, but is free now that it is paid for. In the Northeast tolls don’t go away, they go up.
You don’t pay for the same gallon of milk over and over do ya? It is indeed stupid to pay for the same patch of pavement over and over after paying fuel taxes. How about this, economics for stupid people: Don’t spend more than you take in. Good grief. You Like to pay for the same patch of asphalt repeatedly? OMG.. What else do you pay for liue that? I have some things I could sell ya, if you are willing to pay for it every time you use it..