Re:Toll roads are spreading in America
by hopelite on Saturday December 27, 2025 @06:05PM
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Maybe the solution is more going over to a fee based on % of one’s net worth. So since you seem to think something like $6 being an acceptable price for someone with a $500 net worth, maybe 1.2% of net worth for each traversal of a segment is appropriate, so you pay maybe $24,000 with every trip down the toll road and Elon musk pays $9.12 billion, while the bottom of the rung working class can pay $6.
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Re:Toll roads are spreading in America
by snickell on Saturday December 27, 2025 @07:23PM
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I… wow, I actually really like this idea. As you may have seen in my other comments, I’m not blind to the advantages of toll money being used to improve roads etc. This preserves that upside, while making the publicly owned resource roughly equally available to everyone.
Re:Toll roads are spreading in America
by zhoujianfu on Saturday December 27, 2025 @07:03PM
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I think the right solution is charge whatever would maximize revenue, then distribute the revenues evenly among all residents/voters/whomever.
Re:Toll roads are spreading in America
by whimsicalism on Sunday December 28, 2025 @08:09AM
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I am actually fine with letting people who do higher value labor get faster to their destination. We only do these foolish bending over backwards for equity things in the public sphere and ultimately we all pay as a society.
If you want to help poor people, tax and then redistribute. Don’t make a million small rules and discounts that make things less efficient and our society poorer.