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In reply to the discussion: What's wrong with America: 'Why should I pay a toll for someone else's bridge?' [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)37. Infrastructure should be part of the commons and paid for with taxes
Why would any be paying a toll (usage fee) for something they don't use and why are we paying tolls at all?
If you want socialism then you levy taxes, if you want fee for use then there ya go but mixing them is a dishonest mess and the mess is usually a set up to pad some fucker's pocket and if not to cover political cowardice in avoiding taxation but making it de facto or probably even worse creating a system of regressive avoidance a little at a time.
Mixing these concepts is playing with fire. I don't get the easy hand on this stuff, democratic control of levies goes out the window and the weight is heaviest on the bottom.
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What's wrong with America: 'Why should I pay a toll for someone else's bridge?' [View all]
Newsjock
Jan 2013
OP
But they WERE students once. Then there's that "property values and good schools" thing.
WinkyDink
Jan 2013
#5
This is exactly what is wrong with America. We have lost the good for the community.
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#3
That's a corallary ofthe "If I can't see how I'm going to make a buck at it, it's not worth knowing"
patrice
Jan 2013
#4
The media and politicians intentionally divide us because it is their bread and butter
Cynicus Emeritus
Jan 2013
#13
The link author is still promoting a toll. Which is a bad idea and harms the poor.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#17
Civilization is a collective endeavor. Corporations & Randian libertarians would
DirkGently
Jan 2013
#33