Posted on 04/26/2017 1:13:08 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ask them in NYCity where their monthly toll road EZPass bill is starting to look like their mortgage payment
I thought the WV Turnpike was paid for years ago.
Also, they have a $0.40 toll at one place, why not just make it easier for everyone and make it either $0.50 or $1.00?
Kill the tolls.
We were supposed to on the Golden Gate bridge, once it was paid for.
All they’ll do is keep jacking up the tolls to pay for the latest transportation pork, busses, trains....
Probably not a single solitary good reason, but certainly a laudable idea that a Government would keep their promise to terminate a tax when the bonds it was designated for are paid off. Someone better put a stop to this before it spreads.
Of course. In the statists’ minds, money should continue to be taken from citizens, with NOTHING in return. A boot stomping a human face, forever.
The answer for them is simple: Issue new bonds before 2019 so tolls will be required to pay the new debt.
These blankety blanks.
They have it backwards.
The question should not be, what reason is there that the toll shouldn’t be continued.
The question should be, what reason is there that the toll should be continued.
There’s a difference.
The onus should be on those who want to continue the toll, after the reason for the toll is gone. The onus should not be on us, to have to ask them why they won’t delete the toll as agreed to, when the bonds are paid off.
Toll roads in Texas can read a license plate @ 200 mph. No Humans required.
In a world with self driving cars, toll booth worker’s “good jobs” making change are the reason to keep the tolls?
WV can vote Republican, but the backward Democrat mindset is hard to shake.
An excellent and appropriate literary reference.
I can’t think of one solitary reason to subscribe to the Beckley Idiot Opinion rag.
Not one single solitary one.
How about “because you sold construction of it on the toll ending when the bonds were paid”?
At worst they could still layoff the collection crew, make it $.50-$1.00 and put quarter baskets in with arms over the drive lane.
all of the maintenance of the highway. Price tag? An estimated $60 million per year.
What have they done with the 30 million annual profit?
Thanks. Orwell was not wrong.
People NEVER learn.
There is NO SUCH THING as a temporary tax, fee, or toll. Ask the long-suffering people of Northern Illinois. The tollway authority there is a criminal cash machine tha the Mafia and drug cartels could only DREAM about. With the government as the enforcers, to boot.
Why end the tolls? Because politicians promised the tolls would end and so they should. My father predicted they wouldn’t.
Forget in the short term that legislative inaction makes hostages of Authority employees who cannot know what the future holds for their employment prospects.
So now the primary purpose of a road is to provide government employment for life. Triple face-palm indeed.
No kidding. I just wish Leftists didn’t like to use his work as an instructional manual.
Thanks Tol, and thanks for the ping yesterday.
Generally when one reads something this ONE SIDED, there’s more going on than meets the eye...as in some ‘cozy’ relationships. I suspect something similar here, as it’s not like the people in WV, after being the prime target of the Dems (due to their coal mining) are swimming around in money they don’t need.
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