Paying toll for road usage is fine as long as ALL of the proceeds go to maintaining the road and NO additional tax money is spent on the road
“Paying toll for road usage is fine as long as ALL of the proceeds go to maintaining the road and NO additional tax money is spent on the road”
Exceedingly rare. In Houston, they now collect more money than they can can use from our toll roads, but rather than pay off the bonds, they send it to the city, so that Mayor Turner can use the money for his ‘priorities’ (hint, one of them is not transportation).
In Pennsylvania, the state had the opportunity to put up toll booths on the now-free I-80, under one condition, the money was only used for the highway. The proposal got REJECTED by Obama’s bunch (about the only thing they ever did right), because the state wanted to take the extra proceeds and send them to their mass transit friends in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia (which was not permitted by the legislation). They were told to re-submit, but to only use the money on I-80. The state said no thanks, the tolling level would be so low as not to be worth the effort to collect anything.