Maryland “Freak State” PING!
You got to pay the sheriff of Nottingham if you wish to go through the king’s forest, it is how these petty criminal bureaucrats see their fiefdoms.
What a ridiculously complex system. The MTA sends a stamped letter to collect a $3 toll and depends on the USPS both ways, otherwise, they just throw on a fine that is insanely high.
I wonder how Manno voted when the system was proposed.
I also wonder if the ICC and the silly express lanes on I-95 in Baltimore County are pulling in the expected level of revenue. I highly doubt it.
There is such toll road in the Raleigh Durham area. I got on it not knowing what it was nor how it worked.
A photo was made of my license plate and many weeks later I got a toll bill for $0.43. The postage was $0. 41 for the bill and my return of the payment charged to my mastercard.
I have no interest in acquiring a nazi-pass account.
Is there no limit to the ignorance and/or dishonesty of these Democrats?
ML/NJ
Toll roads are like taxes; they are FOREVER.
What’s really pathetic is when this “public” infrastructure is paid for with tax money, underwritten with municipal bonds.. and owned by foreigners.
Commerce between master and slave is ______?
So, such a small percentage of people affected does not warrant a change in the law?
Got it.
Wait, does that remind me of something?
Be prepared for more toll roads. Trump’s infrastructure program provides tax credits for public private partnerships (P3s). The private sector provides the financing and construction in return for a revenue stream down the road.
Gas taxes are supposed to be the “user fees” for gov’t-run roads, but aren’t enough to feed the Leviathan
These are the temporary toll booths, right, because tolls were always meant as temporary fixes?
Sounds like NY too
And that is one of about three reasons why I take I-81 (sixty miles extra) rather than I-95 when driving from Georgia to Connecticut...minimize time and tolls in Maryland. The other two reasons are New Jersey and NYC.
Over 11 years ago, while my wife and I were traveling around the country deciding where we wanted to move to, we had our mail forwarded to my brother in MD. For about 8 weeks he would box it up once a week and UPS it to us where ever we were.
Fast forward after we had been living in another state for a year or two. We get a letter from the Freak State demanding that we pay state income tax for the year in which those 8 weeks occurred if we couldn’t prove we weren’t living there. MD didn’t think it had to prove we were living there.
I responded appropriately and received confirmation from MD that the issue was settled. Now, 10 years later I still have a file saved on the whole matter because I know some paper pusher could dig out the file and claim we owe them money...start it up all over again.
Never understood tolls, unfortunately thenorthern horror taxation is now everywhere. It’s like taking your liter sofa back to the store everyday to pay for it again. Tolls are not being used for anything more than union pensions and govt shell games. We are all Living in taxachusetts. Liberal money laundering. Let’s take a failed policy and do it again.
Tolls - because the Democrats stole all the money you already paid in taxes to build the road.