I-80 Tolling Scheme Rejected!
Posted on April 7, 2010
Filed Under IN THE NEWS, POLITICS
Every now and then, something happens to slightly restore your faith in govenment. Yesterday, April 6, 2010, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) rejected Fast Eddie Rendell’s scheme to toll I-80 across Pennsylvania. The main reason was that Rendell was not going to use all the money (or probably even most of the money) to maintain I-80, he was instead going to funnel the taxes to mass transit in the cities, or God knows what else.
Here is an article from our local leftist paper, the Reading Eagle. It laments the loss of millions which the local bus authority would have gotten from the tolls. Actually, I’m not sure how you can “lose” something you never had to begin with, but there you go. Now, Rendell will have to go back to the Legislature for his tax increases. If he wants to raise my taxes so there can be cheap bus service in Philadelphia, then let him and the rest of the slimy Legislature vote for it in broad daylight, instead of trying to get the FHWA bureaucrats to approve it. Yea FHWA! (Never thought I’d say that).
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