I’m actually surprised tolls haven’t been framed as “racist”; that is the key to removing them.
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Tolls definitely hurt the poor disproportionately ,, libs generally label anything they don’t like as racist ,,, and as minorities typically have lower paying jobs this fits the bill as harming them... What I don’t understand is putting tolls on FEDERAL INTERSTATES like I-95 ,, that should be easy to fight.
Oh, I like the concept of tolls - they try to match the expenses of a service with the users. If they are too high for poor minorities, they are too high for everyone else as well. As for the tolls on 95, here in NJ until recently we had gasoline prices among the lowest in the nation; it is easy for people to pass through the state without filling up, so we gave them incentive to do so. At the same time, people using 95 pay tolls to do so. I prefer this to CT, where tolls were removed in exchange for a higher gas tax; this basically put the expenses of the roads (and all the out-of-stater using them) on locals, in another state small enough to pass through without buying gas.