Posted on 04/29/2014 6:24:18 PM PDT by Nachum
Washington - Drivers on the nation’s Interstates could soon be paying more to travel. A transportation proposal sent to Congress by the Obama administration on Tuesday would remove a prohibition on tolls for existing Interstate highways, clearing the way for states to raise revenue on roads that drivers currently use at no cost. Congress banned tolls on Interstates in 1956 when it created the national highway system under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The administration said lifting the toll ban would help address a shortfall in funding to pay for highway repairs. The tolls, along with other changes, could provide an
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Another slush fund
Obama wants to collect more in taxes/fees without even pretending there is an added benefit? NO WAY!!!
All my bills, the price of gas and keeps going up, taxes have gone up, etc...meanwhile income is down. Its almost enough to make you want to put a bullet through your head.
“You can have your freeways and keep them. Oops - we meant keep them as toll highways.”
“We’re not sorry we lied.”
True, Obama and the libertarians seem in agreement on this.
If the government would stick to its legitimate functions it would have more than enough money to handle those functions.
The Slimes is being dishonest here. I-95 has had tolls on it as long as I can remember.
Leaving it to the states?
Motto of the Obama Administration: Leave Nothing Un-Taxed.
Any way they can take more money from us. Studies have shown that most of the money collected from tolls goes to payroll for the toll road administration. In other words it is a jobs program for jobs that don’t really need to be done.
More money for importing Democrat voters no doubt.
We need more money for the bottomless pit of government!
12-times as expensive roundabouts
It is not just the cost of roundabouts that are beneficial to the left (the road builders send a good chunk of that money back to the Dims). Other advantages are:
1) It takes more land out of private hands (every little bit helps)
2) It frustrates drivers into (hopefully in their eyes) getting on to public transportation instead of private vehicles.
3) It gives DOT personnel a feeling of power because they can force these on the people who pay their salaries.
Millions of dollars worth.
And roads that drivers, for all practical purposes, have no choice but to use.
Yet another destruction of freedom.
He’ll have to ask for funding to exempt his welfare minions from the tolls.
“For the chillun”.
mmm... if he put price controls on food stamps requiring people to pay 55 cents on the dollar for them that would make up the difference.
I mostly avoid the interstates for getting around locally but use them for long distance. +the goods and services I buy.
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