Re:Toll roads are spreading in America
by salawat on Saturday December 27, 2025 @05:04PM
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See, here's the thing. Definition of acceptable isn't up to you. It's up to the people who have no other choice but to use it.
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Re:Toll roads are spreading in America
by anon84873628 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @06:08PM
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Theoretically those people express their opinion via electing representatives. Infrastructure investment and "fixing the potholes" seems to be a common campaign theme.
Re:Toll roads are spreading in America
by salawat on Saturday December 27, 2025 @08:17PM
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It really isn't followed through on as often as you think, and since Citizen's United, the typical candidate tends to chase the donations of people who think tolls are a grand idea. Not so much the rest of the working stiffs. Institutional inertia is a hell of a thing when your working demographic is keeping the retiree's and children's heads above water.