Income Tax Debate
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Taxation is THEFT.
Abolish income and personal property taxes.
END THE FED.
I understand sales tax, but no other taxation. Property tax is insane. Especially if you live in CA, Chicagoland, NYC. What those people have to pay on property taxes is pure robbery, nothing more.
And for the love of God, someone please try to explain highway tolls to me. Believe they claim tolls are a way to pay for the construction of roadways, but when does it end? Some roadways have long been paid for but they're still fleecing drivers.
Tollways are privately owned and maintained. They use the tolls to maintain it. From my experience, most toll roads are in far better condition than Interstates on average.
And really, shouldnt those that use the roads pay for them? Just like bundled cable packages, why should I pay for something I never use? I dont watch the Food Network and the little old lady on a pension, living in a retirement community doesnt use the roads.
The biggest problem with the toll roads is that the toll road companies get sweetheart deals from the state to lease the land for the toll roads.
It is often something like a dollar a year, meanwhile the toll road companies make huge money cutting corners on maintenance and initial construction.
Like using asphalt instead of concrete for the roadway on a 15 year lease.
By the time the lease is up the section gets turned over to the state, the entire roadway will need to be repaved.
I worked for a state DOT and my Dept dealt with toll road companies so I have seen the sweet deals made.
Sweet deals aren't the problem. Problem is making the deals properly and enforcing them.
Having clauses to maintain the roads all the way to last day of lease means you have good people working for you in govt, and enforcing them and having big penalties for lack of follow through means you have more good people .
No company wants a toll road lease if they can't make money, and no state should give them freely without assurances of care.
Ultimately, if fed and state can't care for them, let the private sector. Yes, if done correctly (like everything else) it will work.