Posted on 10/13/2004 9:12:17 AM PDT by illumini
Remember the Boston Tea Party?
Get ready for the AUSTIN TOLL PARTY.
Bumper stickers in Austin read: "AustinTollParty.com Stop The Double Tax Toll Plan". A billboard near the 8th-street downtown exit from I-35 echos the theme.
Go to website: http://www.austintollparty.com to get the details. There you will see a map outlining the plan to make all of Austin's EXISTING commuter highways part of a toll road system. The filthy rascals started building toll booths before the plan was "officially" approved by CAMPO. We have uncovered evidence of conflict of interest on part of some appointed politicans on the CAMPO board.
If you live in or around Austin, Texas your daily commute is about to become a LOT more expensive.
Your car may as well get 2 miles to the gallon!
Please attend the RECALL RALLY this Monday, October 18th. We are seeking signatures of Austin voters on a petition to hold early elections for Mayor and two city council members identified on the Austin Toll Party website.
"There will be live music and speakers from across the spectrum. This is the most populist political drive ever in the State of Texas, and we need your participation".
We The People need to take back our city and our roads. You can help: Got to the website, and follow steps one through five. Sign a petition.
RECALL RALLY:
SPEAKERS: Citizens of all persuasions, along with any politician who will take a stand with the people of central Texas.
VOLUNTEERS!! Call us or email us today if you want to volunteer. We plan to be at all the polls starting with early voting on the 18th through the 29th and on election day. Lets get the recall election on the May ballott. WE NEED YOU!
RADIO HOSTS: Please mention this on the air through election day. THANK YOU!
RECALL RALLY: 4700 Grover Street (South of 49th between Lamar and Burnet) 6-8 PM.
OK, I'll bite...
Are you pushing for no roads, or higher taxes. I think it is safe to assume the roads will not build themselves.
These are tolls on existing roads, already paid for with taxpayer money. It is happening in the Dallas area as well.
They want to charge toll on roads already funded, and on roads already built. Only in Austin Texas the Liberal Cesspool of Texas.
Do you not see it this way?
So, do you advocate tolls on EVERY road, so as to share the tax burden incurred in order to build roads throughout the state? Wouldn't that make freeloaders out of all drivers who do not use toll roads? Using your rationale, an entrance fee should be required to enter any government building because, let's face it, they don't build themselves.
Tolls lead to (more) corruption. You don't think any unconnected person is going to land a $40,000 salary (loaded w/ benefits) collecting quarters, do you? Nope, those jobs are for "friends." And you don't think those "reasonable" tolls won't increase frequently, do you?
Bottom line - the gov't has plenty of money. They just need to figure out how not to waste it.
List the non-environmentally extremist members, I having trouble thinking who they may be.
Texas is strange. I drove through it across I-10 last year and was pulled over for a seatbelt violation. The state trooper saw me put my seatbelt on as I was pulling out of the gas station(go figure). I think those small towns like Junction fund themselves on traffic violations.. hehe.
The ticket was $160. Speeding ticket at minimum was half that.
So, let me get this straight: Putting my own life at risk warrants more punishment than putting others lives at risk.. Yeah.. that's logical :rolls eyes:
Care to try again?
In Austin I am surprised that there is a group fighting the toll roads for EXISTING roads, being the socialist cesspool that it is.
In Houston the MSM has already announced that any new roads built will be toll roads.
That is exactly why I refuse to use ANY toll road. My taxes helped build the roads.....not gonna let them double-dip me.
There is one stretch of toll road here named the Westpark Tollway. It runs for about a 5-mile stretch and costs $2.50 one way. Some fools are actually paying it.
Several years ago there weren't enough people using the Sam Houston tollway so the "authorities" said, without embarrassment, ( paraphrased, ) "There aren't enough people using the tollway so we are going to INCREASE the toll." Is that total insanity or what?
An example mass transportation in Austin. Look at that mess, and think what will happen to the toll monies.
I for one would like to pay for a road only once. I would like to see roads to be built with bonds. (a way to set aside a set portion of future tax revenue)
I would like to see politicians with the courage to tell us, hey solving traffic will require building this road and that will cost X dollars. Not pass the buck by creating a regional authority so they can play the blame game, and then tell us, it will cost no new taxes, just tolls.
-- lates
-- jrawk
...They want to charge toll on roads already funded, and on roads already built. Only in Austin Texas the Liberal Cesspool of Texas...
Since you can't hardly get in or out of Austin, the houses located in the city have about tripled in value in recent years.
The cesspool of Texas is in need of a gigantic caca sucker.
I was up there for SXSW last year on business and I've never seen so many losers in one place in all my life.
If they wanted to follow Houstons lead and put in a new toll highway, I'd say fine. But what exactly are they proposing here? If it's just standing up toll booths on the existing infrastructure, the only thing that is going to move is money out of your wallet.
You are right on with this deek. In addition, people are uneducated in that they do not know that for every toll road there is a free road alternative.
So what will happen when everyone takes to the side streets genius?
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