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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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.
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I recently read in a blog (surprise, surprise) about the toll charges in Japan. Something lik $120 for a single toll.
Here in Texas, our Govenor wants to put together a superhighway that's a quarter mile wide, subsidized by tolls and bonds.
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