Originally Posted by
phoebeisis
Toll roads-are a typical AFFLUENT FOLKS solution to "their" roads being too crowded.
American Enterprise Institute-hell they should go for a more free market the solution-tell you to quit whining and MOVE
Toll roads are always subsidized by the rest of us no matter what they claim(even if the SUBSIDY-is your poisoning me with your exhaust)
Yeah-MOVE should have been their suggestion if they were playing it straight-but the affluent are always quick to privatize roads-get the unwashed out of their way)
I linked to that site to try to find common ground with the more conservative thread participants. I was more interested that they agreed on the problem rather than the specific solution.
My point is that we should not be publicly subsidizing other people's driving, either directly or indirectly, or rich or poor. In terms of the harmful effects of exhaust, probably more of that comes from poor people's cars than rich people's cars, so why would I want to subsidize either rich
or poor people driving? If poor people need my help I'll try to figure out a way to help them that doesn't involve more fossil fuel consumption.