Toll-road fever no bargain for consumers

WorldNetDaily ^ | January 20, 2007 | Henry Lamb

[A. Pole]

The users of these facilities will be paying handsome tolls, premium prices for food and services, in addition to the exorbitant gasoline tax, for most of the rest of this century.

What makes this form of infrastructure financing so attractive to highway officials is the initial cash payment from the private-sector operator.

Privatization bump

[narby]

They left out the part about non-compete agreements with the state, that forbid the people to build a free road to compete with the toll road. After all, what idiot would pay money to drive on a road unless the alternative was inferior?

[FLOutdoorsman]

Did they also leave out the use of Eminent Domain to seize your land and property, for private use?

[Oldexpat]

Why not sell the state capital and let the law makers lease their offices from the owner?
Sell the governor's mansion..and let him lease it back.

[libill]

Except for special projects, collecting tolls plus road uses taxes in motor fuel just irks me. Here in New York many tolls were initially employed to fund the building projects, but those tolls still remain although the original building financing completed years ago.

The idea of selling public assets conjures up visions of buying groceries with a credit card. Buying groceries with on credit is good for bridging small gaps, but is a bad tactic over the long term.

In my opinion high taxation along with high corruption is the reason New York has a negative population growth rate.

Tax rates aside, I wonder if society is going down the same road that gave rise to Amtrak.

[calcowgirl]

Ping.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Thanks for the ping.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[wolfcreek]

This article never touched on several other subjects such as, the environmental, resource and cultural aspects. "The poor working stiff" will pay in many other ways than just money.

[sauropod]

Put the decal gates from the Hatem Bridge on 95 ping!

[libill]

Are the Trans-Texas Corridor, trans United States super super highway, North American Union and the death of the United States constitution the reasons former border guards Compean and Ramos are in political prison?

[Paleo Conservative]

WorldNetDaily ^ | January 20, 2007 | Henry Lamb

Whirled Nut Daily

[libill]

Make your case instead of merely tossing childish names.

[Paleo Conservative]

I've probably posted 500 posts on various threads about this topic. Look them up.

[ken21]

thanks.

cintra, a spanish investment co., has a very negative record in canada and california.

[libill]

I don't care if you have posted 50,000 times. You made a childish and immature slur, now back it up.

[The Mayor]

Here's my current fight.... Say No to Grand Island Tolls

[libill]

That is what I mean.

I assume you live upstate New York and I live and grew up on Long Island, but lived just outside Rochester. You are quite familiar with the NYS Thruway. The tolls are still there right? Wasn't the Thruway paid for already? Why is the thruway a federal interstate highway receiving federal funds? I have seen taxes implemented for good causes that were supposedly just temporary, but they were made permanent. The revenue collected from the tolls on the bridges and tunnels around New York City are treated and considered as a general tax.

You may not agree with all of the contributors of content to "World Net Daily" that does not justify your shot however. That is even especially important since a major contributor is Dr. Jerome Corsi.

My warning is that each issue may seem isolated, but that is rather rare. In my opinion Long Island is hopeless now after dying a death of a thousand cuts. Will the whipping boy be allowed to turn towards the rest of New York State?