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Showing Original Post only (View all)Five easy reasons to oppose ObamaTolls [View all]
A. It's regressive as hell. It could hardly be more regressive.
B. It's a double blow to truckers and anyone else who travels for a living. Not only will it cost them more money directly, but it will slow them way down. This is not only irritating, it adds to the cost of doing business -- which will be passed along as possible in the form of more regressive price hikes. Apparently Obama thinks the things you buy, your food for example, is too cheap.
C. It allows our NSA to more easily monitor and database the movements of every citizen. And yes, that's exactly what they would do.
D. It forces traffic to slow and then reaccelerate, both of which are terrible for fuel economy and the environment.
E. If we allow this, it will be yet another dagger in the back of the working people who form the backbone of our party. We will not simply have forgotten about them, as is the case today, we will be actively fucking them over. Right now the poor and lower middle class people are drowning, this proposal is like handing them a weight and telling them to swim harder.