"Does anybody have a dime? Somebody's gotta go back and get a s___load of dimes!"
Posted on 01/25/2018 7:06:05 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Rent-seekers of the world, unite!
So we are supposed to be impressed by greedy unions cheering for squeezing still more money from the taxpayers?
If tolls paid for highways and nothing else there would be a logic to them.
However, the CT legislature could never keep their sticky fingers out of a box of chocolates. :-)
All as$holes without a clue. Tax and spend. Toll is a tax.
Tolls are a good way to keep the poor unwashed masses off the roads and out of the way of the elitist. They are a excellent form of discrimination.
Tolls are a good way to keep the poor unwashed masses off the roads and out of the way of the elitist. They are a excellent form of discrimination.
“If tolls paid for highways and nothing else there would be a logic to them.”
Yeah, but as we have learned here in California, they pass new taxes for road construction then, build bike lanes and pay for illegals with the money, then come back at the driving public with another bite saying the last bite “wasn’t enough.” The RATs here are already running on borrowed time. California will collapse financially, because the great unwashed illegal cadre here is now being allowed to vote, and they will vote the state into insolvency in the next few years.
Boy, I read this and immediately thought the same thing.
I would not trust those people to use those funds only for highway maintenance.
I fully expect them to fund gold-plated healthcare and outrageously generous pension benefits to unionized state workers.
Count on it.
Makes your blood boil.
And they wonder why working class Americans who pay taxes hold their legislators in such utter contempt.
Let’s be honest. They lie about toll money and gas tax money. It goes in the general budget and does not get spent on highways and bridges.
I had a lengthy post ( which I sometimes repost) where I wanted to see where the “stimulus” funds in my state were going back in 2010 because they had set up websites for “transparency”, though I am certain they thought that either nobody would access them (I did) or that data would be so obfuscated and the interface so unwieldy that people would give up (I didn’t)
In my investigation, I found that millions of dollars were being taken from the stimulus “funds” and used by states and localities to pay for gold-plated teacher’s union healthcare. And this was just in ONE community, and one of the wealthiest ones in the state at that.
I can’t see one of those “American Reinvestment and Recovery” signs without having my blood pressure spike and spitting on the ground. Still makes me angry.
Taking money from taxpayers and throwing it into these open state coffers guarantees that kind of thing will happen.
Legislators? Highwaymen? Both call out “Stand and deliver!” and use force to accomplish the deed. I see no difference between them other than we elect the former.
“Taking money from taxpayers and throwing it into these open state coffers guarantees that kind of thing will happen.”
This is why all government employee unions should be outlawed. They have morphed into special interest groups who lobby the government and are given taxpayer dollars to do so. The RAT/RAT Union nexus has gotten to the point that is it self-sustaining by use of the government tit.
Agreed...”Stand and Deliver” indeed.
I bypass CD now heading to Mass. This gives me more incentive!
The construction industry cheers guaranteed revenues to their bank accounts. Big surprise there...
Of course I hope they realize that they can put tolls on state roads all they want but you can’t toll an interstate without federal permission
Oh, and sound walls. Can’t see the scenery from the freeway, anymore, because they build cinder block walls down both sides that turn the whole thing into a concrete canyon.
Oh, and “Express Lanes”; tax everyone to add another lane, then restrict access on a pay-to-play basis — as if everyone else wasn’t taxed out the wazoo to build the f*g thing.
Leftists who get angry about discrimination haven’t got jack to say about this form of it.
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