End This Rampant Socialism Right Now!

Erect toll booths anywhere one piece of pavement ends and another begins.

We must privatize these socialist roads. These roads allow everyone to move about freely without paying their fair share. Include the sidewalks, too.

Think of all the private jobs that will be created, and all the money collected from those who buy the roads and erect their tool booths from sea-to-shining-sea!

Heaven forbid a government entity actually make some money.q

The thing about our system is... when a government does gather money, it spends it!!

Can you imagine? Why doesn't it just hoard the money? That's what rich people do.

Of course, when we toll booth all the roads, toll booth finance companies will be born.
That way anybody could get financing to drive from here to there. Pure capitalism. Yeeha!

The widest example of rampant socialism are the roads. Methinks?

How any capitalist could just let this slide on by with making some big money is a sure sign that capitalists are just a bunch of honkeys.

Honk..honk. Get off my road you damn kids!

a path that animals have originally trod or logging companies have cut through the forest. Been in states that had roads this bad and where there is no incentive for private companies to pave and maintain roads. You wouldn't like it.

When federal funds did come to these states during the Clinton administration to build roads, the road crews went from county to county in their trailers with their wives, children and pets during the summer months, earning enough money to tide themselves over the winter when there was no road building or road repair. I believe those jobs still offer more security and living wages than any private company could or would be willing to although I haven't lived in said states for over a decade now that tend to be very Republican.

I do like the foot paths better than the roads. Less traffic. Safer.

Maybe if we have a toll booth on sidewalks, dirt footpaths will become more prevalent?
I like the way you make me think, Cleita. Love is meant as flattery.

In the place of what used to be a freeway was a "toll road."

Now, I can understand a turnpike. You get on at whatever entrance and pick up a ticket. When you get off the turnpike, you turn in your ticket and are charged for the amount of turnpike you traveled.

Not so the toll road. You get on at any particular entrance and two miles down the road is a toll both and you pay seventy-five cents. Another couple miles down the road, for no dicernable reason, is another toll booth. This time the fee is fifty cents. Four of so miles down the road is another toll both, but the fee here is one dollar. Eight miles down the road is a toll booth for seventy-five cents again. And then no more toll booths.

The placement of the booths are not logical. They do not appear at entrances and exits. And it doesn't seem cost effective. Unless they are using your template. Maybe the city/county requested bids for certain parts of the road and different bidders won different parts of the roads. hmmm......