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In reply to the discussion: So they're planning a system of toll plazas on our nation's highways. [View all]Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)131. Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"
I like Harry Tuttle's quote in the movie: "I got into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off. This whole system of yours could be on fire, and I couldn't even turn on a kitchen tap without filing a 27b-6."
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So they're planning a system of toll plazas on our nation's highways. [View all]
woo me with science
Mar 2012
OP
May be like the ones in Denver--where you don't stop (and you may well NOT know you've incurred $$)
hlthe2b
Mar 2012
#1
As if we didn't know this would happen. But I remember being told we were 'paranoid' by
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#115
This is about mass privatization and increasing corporate profits. Simple as that.
Zalatix
Mar 2012
#32
Where's the conspiracy theory? You have not answered the question 'who is going
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#117
Exactly. This is regressive, and adds an entire layer of corporate involvement
woo me with science
Mar 2012
#97
Was there some reason why you didn't just post a link rather than make it necessary
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#116
Yup. It is hardly conspiracy to anticipate the behavior of Homeland Security,
woo me with science
Mar 2012
#55
Who is going to profit from this? Who will be collecting the tolls? What about poor people
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#118
Well it looks like the Toll Amendment has been withdrawn, see downthread. You can stop
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#121
The interstate system was supposed to be FREE from tolls, paid by gas tax.
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2012
#122
It passed, but the Tolling Amendment is off the table for now. So, I guess the OP was
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#124