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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 12:01 PM
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It looks like the plan for converting our highways to toll roads has been put in motion
A report put out by right wing Wisconsin Policy Research Institute think tank, authored by Robert W. Poole, Jr of the right wing Reason Foundation, lays out a plan for charging tolls to drive on 743 miles of our Wisconsin highways. Interestingly, David H. Koch is a trustee with the Reason Foundation. Both Reason and the WPRI are all about promoting privatization and other lockstep right wing corporatist policy.

Capital Times article

The Report

Wisconsin Policy Research Institute

Reason Foundation

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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 12:45 PM
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1. Toll roads are foreign in WI and MN
It would not go over well. I hate paying for any toll road I have been on.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 12:53 PM
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2. Now people won't know when they've left Illiniois.
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Yon_Yonson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 02:49 PM
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3. If WI toll roads comes into being ...
I will personally avoid them and take more back road. We can also expect more accidents at the toll sites.
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HelenWheels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-02-11 06:22 PM
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4. This is a tax raise
Just another sneaky for the Repukes to raise taxes on the working class. The Richie Riches don't use the roads as they travel by private jet.
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 12:31 AM
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5. Actually it is a way to skim some profits off the top
at the public's expense in more than one way (public money built roads besides the daily toll/tax). Someone will get big kickbacks.
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