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It's time for Wisconsin to seriously consider tolling
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | May 16, 2016 | Patrick Jones

Posted on 05/29/2016 1:11:28 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Secret Agent Man
Doyle made history raiding transportation funds for social programs.

I seriously doubt that.
California, and its sub-70-IQ elected criminals have always been the pioneers in raiding the taxpayers' pockets.

Always have been, always will be.

21 posted on 05/29/2016 2:00:18 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It is time for Wisconsin to seriously consider tolling.

How much of the money nominally taxed for the upkeep of roads is actually used for road maintenance, new road construction and directly associated costs? Unless the answer is 100%, the notion of charging tolls for roads built with public money is outrageous.
22 posted on 05/29/2016 2:02:10 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: 2banana
Where is ALL the money from gas taxes going?

What happened to the $900 billion dollar Stimulus money Obama was given to rebuild the nation's infrastructure?

Obama treated it like his private slush fund.

It just seemed to be frittered away with little to show for it.


23 posted on 05/29/2016 2:02:31 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Were Rebublicans 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Engedi

Toll Bridges, but it didn’t help their argument to point out that nuance....


24 posted on 05/29/2016 2:06:56 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Engedi

I did not think Minnesota had any either.


25 posted on 05/29/2016 2:10:02 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Maine Mariner

I don’t know of any toll roads in Minnesota, but I’ve only lived here 35 years so maybe they are somewhere I don’t go. Can’t imagine where though.


26 posted on 05/29/2016 2:24:03 PM PDT by MNMom
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To: Iron Munro

There was only about $30 billion in that package for infrastructure.


27 posted on 05/29/2016 2:25:37 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (0bama's insane rantings prove that power deludes, and absolute power deludes absolutely.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Toll roads - the scam where you bundle in public employee pension debt in with ‘road building’ debt and then charge the public to use the road they already paid for (a couple times over) as a mechanism to fund that debt.

Don’t do it.


28 posted on 05/29/2016 2:35:35 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: dfwgator

LOL.


29 posted on 05/29/2016 2:43:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to take the ticks out of politics.)
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To: BobL

Ahhhh I see. Thanks for pointing that out.


30 posted on 05/29/2016 3:09:31 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Forget tolls- go back to building/repairing roads with convict labor. Much cheaper than inflated bids by politically connected contractors, the only government workers involved would be the guys paid to shoot the escapees and it would increase prison space as part of the incarcerated would live in tents near the work site.


31 posted on 05/29/2016 3:22:32 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

http://projects.511wi.gov

This guy hasn’t been to Wisc. recently.
He’s more interested in how projects are funded.

New Road and road projects all over the place.


32 posted on 05/29/2016 3:22:43 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: GenXteacher
Forget tolls- go back to building/repairing roads with convict labor.

This ain't 'Cool Hand Luke'. With the demographics of prisons, they would essentially be accused of bringing back slavery.

33 posted on 05/29/2016 3:24:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I think the state needs a real audit to see where the money is spent.


34 posted on 05/29/2016 3:36:54 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: dfwgator

Amendment 13,Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Accuse away- it is allowed by the Constitution.


35 posted on 05/29/2016 3:38:47 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: GenXteacher

You know that and I know that, but does that matter?


36 posted on 05/29/2016 3:40:11 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
"Does anybody have a dime?"
37 posted on 05/29/2016 6:45:31 PM PDT by lightman (I'm nobody special...just a follower of the siren call of the Ison.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The communists at the Journal Sentinel want toll booths every five feet like in Illinois.

I love all the lib pablum about “roads and bridges.” Kind of like “path to citizenship.”


38 posted on 05/30/2016 12:07:44 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: dfwgator

To “Black Lives Matter” maybe. Not to me....and it shouldn’t make a difference in any court, although that would only apply to sane jurists who actually read the law.


39 posted on 05/30/2016 5:24:47 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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