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It’s Never About the Toll

Started by yowchuan · 3 months ago

If you look at it this way, the toll is one of the way to milk the People.
There are many other ways to milk the People, other than using toll. Toll is used because it’s a convenient way of milking the People.
Imagine, if there’s no toll, there could be:
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  • Jacques

    8 months ago

    All nice and sweet, but there is one huge difference between all the examples you gave and having a toll Tax. Before there is a toll, there usually is a highway project. And that project needs millions of $ to simply get on the way. Setting up a toll, for a certain number of years, can help cover the cost for the highway construction & help construct new ones.

    FYI, there already is something simliar to an oxygen tax with the now infamous carbon tax in some countries. Is it a bad thing? Not necessarily, tax do not only have a purpose to milk people, they can also change behavior.

    All this, of course, starts from the principle that the government is working for the people...
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  • eugene

    8 months ago

    I would suggest tax for not taking of your health to be implemented, so that we can use that money to build more parks and recreatiional facilities.
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  • Kevin

    8 months ago

    Tax for milking the people...or milking the astrounout?
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