This easy simple act would help improve the quality of life of Americans and return the freedom we used to have to drive down our own highways without being forced to pay increasingly expensive tolls over and over again. As an example I live in a county where one of the two main roads is I-95. It runs thru the entire length of the county so it is an important part of our daily lives.
Unfortunately some Federal Highway Bureaucrat somewhere gave himself the power to put tolls on our highways that were known to be built and paid for with the federal gas tax. So that’s how we have a toll on each end of our county lines. That’s why we have to endure holiday or construction backups that have famously stretched thru the entire county, Cecil county, Md to pay a $2 toll. Then on the other end we have the $12 toll bridge, I’m guessing $12 because I’ve never paid it, Because like most the other locals we exit and go around the toll and then get back on. For the ones that have to pay the toll to get to work they can buy an easy pass and get a whopping, wait for it, 10% off the $12 toll.
Multiply that by all the Federal Tolls in America and you have BILLOINS of unnecessary added expenses of wasted gasoline , diesel, wasted time and labor, business costs, pollution , and aggravation . Tolls are a net negative expense on the country. Why put OURSELVES thru this toll? Why are we tolling ourselves?
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It’s beyond crazy that we pay taxes to build the road and then get charged to drive on the very roads we just paid to build. And tolls are usually implemented for a “limited time”, but that never seems to end.
Our taxes pay for the roads that we are then taxed again for by paying for the tolls, not to mention the taxes on your vehicle that you use to drive on said toll road, then the taxes paid on fuel and maintenance. The Hampton roads area in Virginia is starting to roll all roads in and out. They just spend a ton of money expanding the highways/interstate just to add one lane that is a toll lane. Where is the accountability for where all this money is going?
I totally agree, I-95 jammed up traffic for a year constructing a toll lane instead of just adding another free lane to i-95. It’s obviously just for the money. ELIMINATING FEDERAL HIGHWAY TOLLS WOULD BE A GREAT THING FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP TO SHOW HIS LOVE AND COMPASSION FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.