[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by mac5732:
Tolls here in the good old USA are becoming more prevalent all over. I went to Flordia (Disney World, and went to the space center etc) and there were tolls every few miles. The cost wasn't more then, If I remember right, 10-25 cents. Here in Ohio, we have the Turnpike which is a toll road. I'm with Trajan, as long as the money for the tolls goes for the up keep of the highway, I have no problem paying, its the cost of quick access to where your going and worth the money in the long run, in fact during the winter the Turnpike is probably the best plowed interstate in Ohio vs some of the others we have I-71, I480 etc. A road tax, if it was only and used only for the road up keep, I believe most people would be for it. The problem would be to keep the politicians from using the money for their pet projects instead.

all right, one more comment on tolls & road taxes; I've heard that the Pennsylvania Turnpike (a toll road, obviously) has collected enough tolls over the years to pay for initial construction, plus upkeep, and now the vast majority of the tolls collected goes to paying the salaries of the toll collectors...

I'll go back to my corner table now and hide from the family that has descended upon my house for the week in preparation for my (future) parents-in-law's 50th wedding anniversary celebration...