Posted on 01/08/2017 8:12:18 AM PST by lowbridge
price gouging “laws” are unAmerican
I thought towns were formed in the begging of civilization to stop highway robbery, we certainly have been fundamentally changed.
What is it about Muslims that makes them want to live in the 7th century?
One of many....
The MARKET remembers when businesses unduly gouge. We had a BP station that did it, at a time when others didn't. They were OUT of business 6 months later.
Makes me glad I live in a toll-free zone.
I remember my dear departed mother telling me about the Pennsylvania Turnpike getting started with a whopper of a lie, telling everyone that it would only cost money for a while until it was paid for. Then it’ll be free.
She didn’t object to things having a cost, but she could smell a lying rat a mile away.
NJ was the first state to have toll highways. Here’s how it worked. The tolls were only supposed to pay back the construction bonds. When the bonds were paid back, it was for maintenance(and patronage of overpaid toll collectors who just happened to be politically connected). Then they started taking money from the tolls for the general budget to cover shortfalls. At that point, it just becomes another form of government theft to pay for all the waste and corruption in every corner of the state government.
I would advise people not to allow toll roads to come to their state, no matter what “conservative” arguments there are for it. It will become a permanent tax and lower your quality of life. Don’t think GOP politicians will make this idea work better than the Dems.
I have been on the new toll road in Austin one time and that was when someone else was driving. I refuse to drive on it. And don’t get me started on Perry’s train.
Think about it. $30 to drive a section of what should be FREE roadway.
That’s $60 round trip for work. Hope drivers earned enough that day to cover the toll.
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Sure glad I don’t live in the Poople’s Repugnick of Virginia!
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NJ was the first state to have toll highways.
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The first major toll road in the United States was the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, built in the 1790s, within Pennsylvania, connecting Philadelphia and Lancaster.
That’s $60 round trip for work. Hope drivers earned enough that day to cover the toll.
That’s not all together true.
No one is forced to use these “Toll Lanes”.
As I posted earlier, “They are Voluntary”.
They are any number of “Alternate routes” when navigating the roads around Washington DC. If however, you find yourself stuck and having to choose between paying a toll or sitting in traffic, the question then becomes, “What are you willing to pay?”.
The company that paid for those lanes would disagree.
And so would the convenient store operator who charges $8.00 for a gallon of gasoline during a blizzard shortage.
$2.00 per mile. Unbelievable. My neighborhood - never use the toll lanes, but then again I never drive downtown during rush hour. There are plenty of overpaid Fed bureaucrats who can afford it.
LOL show me another route from the MD state line to the Mixing Bowl. I live here and there are NO alternative routes - unless you want to go 25 miles out of your way to use Fairfax County Pkwy.
there are plenty of surface roads if you are too cheap to pay market prices
there are plenty of surface roads if you are too cheap to pay market prices
Oh yeah? Name a single north-south route (that doesn't have a zillion stoplights) other than Fairfax Cty Pkwy some 25 miles west of DC.
so you are complaining that the free taxpayer subsidized routes are toooo inconvient for you and you want taxpayers to pay for your trip because you are too cheap to pay for it yourself ?
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