I may be drunk, but I know that I did not say anything resembling the above.Oh right, because if I don't have the hundred of billion of dollars to build the roads myself, then I can't complain.
Great logic.
Go to bed dude, you're drunk.
Wake up tomorrow and explain the other bullshit part of your post about Fastrak users and privileged.
There's a new one in MD, and it's a load of shit. It doesn't get much traffic for the millions spent putting it in. They should have kept saving their pennies, and put a train in the median. That would actually reduce congestion and pollution, and is a real solution to the problem.
How would you fix the traffic issue? It's not an easy problem to deal with.
If you are speaking of the ICC, traffic has picked up quite a bit in recent months. I use it constantly from Germantown to PG
If you are speaking of the ICC, traffic has picked up quite a bit in recent months. I use it constantly from Germantown to PG
I refuse to pay a monthly fee for the transponder. If I could just pay a deposit for the transponder and load it with some money so it is available when I need it I would use them but I think it is ridiculous to charge a monthly fee over and above the toll itself. There are ways to get around the fee by getting the transponder from a state like Delaware that don't impose a monthly fee but I am not in a situation where I would use the lanes enough to make that worth the bother.
Who fucking knows. Pensions? More ridiculous social programs? Handouts? We don't have revenue problems, we have spending problems.
Shit, I don't know, but all I know is that they keep raising taxes and fees, on top of taxes and fees, and keep inventing new ways to money grab while some brain dead citizens just bend over and take it. Some even vote for it every freaking time they put some dumb shits on the ballot.
You know what Cerpin Taxt, since you keep harping on about numbers, I went and looked some up.
There are about 28,864,646 cars registered in California with the average registration fees of $200. That's $5,736,929,200 billions a year.
Then, there are about 14.5 billion gallons of gasoline consumed on average per year, so that's about $8,557,900,000 billions a year in taxes.
So, that's $14,294,829,200 a year on revenues to support the road infrastructure and peripherals. Wait, let me take out Uncle Sam's take of $.184 cents per gallon so that leaves California with $11,626,829,200 billions a year for the roads.
I haven't counted the bridge tolls, or other tolls, or ticket fees, other taxes, ordinances, etc...
You're right, they need more money.
maybe that is a VA thing. i don't pay any monthly fee for the ez pass transponder in md.
No, the problem here is that you can't seem to read English.The problem with your idea of "did you pay your fair share?" argument is that you don't even know what the hell it is.
If you can tell me the exact cost, then I'll do the math, otherwise I trust that the government has already done the math when they imposed the different tariffs and fees to keep the infrastructure afloat. Also, the subsequent increases to keep whatever else paid. The problem I have is that they're addicted to keep raising the fees and taxes when they need money. Another problem I have is people like you agreeing to it.
So, if you can't tell me what I should be paying, in your own words, STFU.
This is where your selfishness is overshadowing your liberululzness.
You see, when HOV lanes were originally introduced, they're to encourage people to carpool, thereby reduce traffic and pollution. Now, it's all about the revenues; who gives a shit if the unwashed masses sit in traffic longer.
But, since you don't give a shit about any of that, and just as hypocritical as the people that started charging people to use the HOV lane, even the people with legitimate carpooling needs (Fastrak equipment cost money, and you have to have a deposit in your account). You're the epitome of ass backwards selfish liberal that just made enough money to become a republican, but you still want to impose your liberululistic ideas on others. Fuck the other guys, it's all me!
I don't even know who you are anymore man, you're losing it.
It's free for people car pooling. I'm fine with government subsidizing that and I have done the carpool thing when it is convenient for me. I'm pretty flexible and so is my job but finding people who live nearby and have the same hours (and work at the same company) has not always been easy.
It is nice to be able to take advantage of the HOV lanes when I'm on the motorcycle. I think it is safer for motorcyclists to be moving with the flow of traffic than filtering through gridlock or sitting in stop and go traffic.
So where does the government get its coffer from? Maybe because their coffer, or credits established are contributed by the people through taxes and such, or because of the people? Chicken, egg? You tend to think the government can do whatever the hell they want. And with more people like you supporting them, it's setting up to be that way.No, the problem here is that you can't seem to read English.
My point is that you (actually some other poster earlier in the thread) regards money paid out by the government as money out of your pocket, but does not regard money taken in by the government as money into your pocket. Why are government coffers "yours" only when they spend?