Not Good , Tolls to so called private companies sound like some sort of capitalism when it is not( When there is no chance for competition) when it is a government tax then it just an extcercise of tyrrany
“I didn’t have the money, I didn’t do it.” Carattini said. “They took money from my state taxes and now it’s in a private collection agency. It’s like you need your car to work and you have to work to pay the fees and you don’t have enough money to pay the fees and they say they’re going to suspend your license. I’m a single mother. I need to work.”
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This is what politicians live for. A groveling serf begging to have her life spared from a system the politicians engineered thru their own laws. Politicians no doubt voted into office by this very woman and millions like her.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I don’t use I-200. For this reason.
I also don’t have a Sleazy Pass. Used to have one. There was a $25/month gig on your credit card. Even if you don’t use anywhere near $25 of tolls. I found this out the hard way, and, once found out, I closed out the account.
I detest, loathe, and abhor the Sleazy Pass agency.
Did they come down? What,are you kidding? This is Massachusetts,there are no "temporary" taxes here.
It's been proven by Howie Carr and others (Howie's a Boston talk host and columnist) that the tolls in this state fund the salaries and pensions of hundreds and hundreds of fat a$$ed brothers-in-law of state legislators.These salaries and pensions typically run into 6 figures.
My guess is that the same is true of toll roads in other states as well.
Nazi pass.
I still don’t have it. Not interested. Then again, I’m generally toll-averse.
I know someone who was racking up bills on their father’s car after he died.
They indicated that there was a mixup in the record of what transponder was being used for his car. His got swapped with some rental car.
I also have to wonder how many state and local gov employees manage to have themselves “removed” from the database, so they don’t incur tolls or fines.
Automated toll collection is ripe for abuse.
I live in NH and I have an EZ Pass, which I find quite convenient on the rare occasions when I have to leave the woods and travel to “civilization”.
On a recent trip to NYC, I was shocked to learn that NY now charges you MORE if your transponder was issued by a state other than NY.
Isn’t this a border tax? I thought states couldn’t do that.
I can definitely see problems from the gov bureaucracy happening with this stuff. I avoid the ICC altogether because you can’t just pay at the door with real money.
But once again, the libs are lenient on “poor” people, never mind that they are poor almost invariably because of their own irresponsibility. Libs are enablers.
Oh, and never mind that many of the scofflaws are not poor. Just non-Chalant.