How much will this cost us?
The Feds are proposing to allow states to toll more interstates.We already pay state and federal gas taxes for these roads.Can you imagine how much more this could cost us to go camping since we would...
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travelnutz wrote:
Francesca Knowles,
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"User pay.
I favor charging by the pound, actually. It's weight that tears up roads."
Then you pay the bill anyway as the cost of driving trucks will skyrocket and it will be passed on to the price to move the nation's goods and thus the price to buy the goods will increase at the stores. Guess who will pay that increase?
That's right...end users will pay. DUH!
Freight costs are always factored in to prices. But now that most freight moves by road, and the roads are crumbling as a result, those costs have up til now been borne in no small part by Taxpayers. That direct subsidy to private business has to stop somewhere, and if it takes tolls to do it I'm all for it so long as they're by-the-pound or otherwise truly proportional to the impact on the roads.
And all because we gave away/abandoned thousands of miles of railroad rights-of-way, not to mention built lines, that are much better suited to the long distance movement of freight, and with no impact on the Public Highways.
Ain't it sad?