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Originally Posted by onwebcam
The interstate toll deal has been a plan for many years. They want to privatize the interstates and charge tolls. It was part of the plan when they started pushing to allow Mexican truckers into/through the US. The main interstate arteries would be privatized and expanded upon that way.
Pence is the man behind this right now.. When you cross over the bridge from Indiana to Louisville KY on I65 you will see a bunch of toll signs but no actual toll booths. The last time I came through which I do pretty often I figured they haven't finished up and haven't set the toll booths up yet so I kept on rolling. About a month later I get a bill in the mail. So it's 100% unmanned tolls via pictures. The toll is for the bridge to cross the river on 65 only.. If you want to bypass the toll/cross the river another way expect about a 10 minute detour.. I think the bill was for about $7-$8 to cross the bridge... At least via mail/ransom anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privat..._United_States
Trump's Infrastructure Plan Is Actually Pence's?And It's All About Privatization
Oh and BTW it's actually similar to the UN Agenda 21 plan with National Parks. It might even actually be Agenda 21. I think it was for sure part if NAFTA though. But in any case that's where foreign entities generally are the recipients of the contracts. Most of our National Parks now contracted by foreign entities/trusts. They collect all the fees and supposedly use the fees to maintain. The trusts are usually some World leader Btw.
Simply put, it isn't Trumps idea, it's been in the works for many years.. There's already a big nice costly bridge built as proof it has.. Actually back in the day most bridges were built by companies/individuals. The bridge down the street from me was built by Dupont. Eads Bridge in STL was built by Andrew Carnegie. Just a few examples. |
Bullshit.
The planning, funding, building, and maintaining of freeways is a state function, not a federal one. Outside of funding some freeway projects the federal government has little to do with any of freeway infrastructure. In the case of Pence he was a former governor which is why he was involved in toll roads. Pence might have brought this idea to the White House, but it's Trump who is applying a state model to the federal government.
It's bullshit all around. I live in California. We pay out the ass for our roads. Not only do pay for our car registration (hundreds of dollars a year), but also a state gas tax that just went up with the new year. We make the gas here in California and we pay more than any other state because of our taxes - including Hawaii. (
US Average Gas Prices by State - GasBuddy.com). Now you are telling me they want us to pay yet MORE to drive on our freeways? Fuck that.
This is Trump's infrastructure plan. He just increased our deficit by ten trillion dollars while reducing our taxes, and now he needs to pay for it. Trump is trying to apply a state toll road model to pay for federal funds that he doesn't have money to pay for.