Let's Talk About Tolls

[pelicn]

Panther will usually pay the tolls. Just have to request it at the time of the run and send the receipts in.
They did say no a few times, and we just decline the load.
All in all, they are pretty reasonable with it.

Same way here

 

[AMonger]

While my response is probably not what you're looking for, I detest tolls. For the life of me, I cannot get why states cannot pay for road maintenance in their fuel taxes, and why we, as citizens, continue to have them jammed down our throat.

What really irks me more is dollars collected for highway taxes being used for other things.

Two examples: The NYS Thruway was built with bond debt that was supposed to paid off long ago, then refinanced, but those bonds were paid off in 1997. Those funds were to build and pay for future maintenance through interest. Why do they still collect tolls?

All this because the revenue system is screwed up in this country. Instead of setting a reasonable, moral, and ethical tax rate and then limiting themselves to spending what that brings in, the jackballs in charge spend what they want without regard to what they have then have to raise the difference.

As Lady Thatcher warned, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. This is what happens when we reach that point.



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You know the problem with bad cops? They make the other 5% look bad.

 

[60MPH]

I don't cross them bridges under any circumstances...I don't even let them talk money...I just won't cross them bridges....I did it enough....no more....

I hear ya!!