They are taking away our open highways

[LuvNewcastle]

74. Thanks for the history.

It's the government's responsibility to keep those roads up just like they paid for them to begin with. If the roads are kept up with income tax money, that would mean they were being kept up with a progressive tax instead of tolls, which would essentially be a regressive tax.

And just because they put up with all those toll roads in the Northeast doesn't mean the rest of us should. If the people up there had raised enough hell, they would have found an alternate way to pay for the upkeep of those roads. I know the people around here won't put up with it. I doubt the rest of the country will, either. People are already fucking broke. An extra tax is what might just send them over the edge, although that might not wouldn't be such a bad thing.