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Originally posted by RallyJon
Jeff, did you ever take any public policy or economics courses? Your posts remind me of how I talked in high school: "Well it just shouldn't be like that, it's not FAIR!"
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So how exactly is it proper for the populace to continue to fund the failures of government to deliver expected services to the public? By penalizing the public or by penalizing the government that created the failure in the first place? That's my point. Anything we can do to cut down on the amount of government stupidity and inefficiency is a good thing, IMHO.
This is HARDLY an immature position as you imply - it's certainly more mature than simply saying "pass the problem onto our kids" or "just double-charge the users" as you're suggesting we do. Want to privatize roadways? Fine, there's a legitimate discussion that can be had about that. Toll roads are fine in certain contexts - we can certainly open that up for discussion, but for the city to say "gee whiz, we had untold BILLIONS of dollars (taxes, vehicle registrations, gas taxes, etc.) for roadway upkeep & repairs over the past 100 years and well, shoot. . . those roadways are overloaded and in disrepair so we'll just have to charge more to cover our failure to plan ahead" is grossly improper, IMO.
There's a great saying that I have taped up on my desk that you might have seen before, it reads "Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine". I think it applies rather nicely to this situation too.
If I were a business owner in the city and they were going to implement this, I'd be a bit ticked off too - a lot of people will forego travel on these kinds of roads.