So Congress is working on a highway bill that
envisions more toll booths on interstate highways. Meanwhile, the gas tax, the major source of federal funding for highways, hasn't gone up in a decade.
I would much rather pay for highways through a gas tax than at tolls. Tolls are just irritating. Why is Congress doing this? Is gas tax money being used to pay for non-highway projects? Tolls can raise a lot of money* -- is Congress looking to raise money through tolls because there is such opposition to taxes?
* Read
The Power Broker, about Robert Moses. The key to Moses' power for decades was his control over the spigot of money from toll bridges into and out of Manhattan.
