Title: Beware Of Trump Tolls: Pundits Praise Trump's $1 Trillion Dollar 'Public-Private Partnership' Infrastrcture Repair Plan; Involves Tolls, User-Fees On America's Highways Source:
LibertyFight URL Source:http://libertyfight.com/2016/Trump-Tolls.html Published:Nov 23, 2016 Author:Martin Hill Post Date:2016-11-23 13:13:22 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:1227 Comments:1
A lot of people are discussing how Trump's infrastructure plan will take shape and most importantly, how it will be paid for.
In the following video, Bob Poole, Searle Freedom Trust Fellow and the Director of Transportation Policy at the Reason Foundation, discusses President-elect Trump's proposed one trillion dollar infrastructure repair plan.
Poole notes that this will likely involve public-private partnerships and that the work will likely be paid for through tolls and user fees. He thinks this is a great idea.
Notably, when asked if this would replace the fuel tax, which is supposed to be used to pay for road maintenance a d repair, he replies "NO," that would be too "radical" for Congress to approve.
Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Wilbur Ross released a ten-page white paper last month outlining the details of Trump's infrastructure revenue plan.
So essentially drivers are going to be charged and taxed out the ass to drive on roads which we have already paid for and which the fuel tax is supposed to be allotted for. As a small business owner in the transportation industry, I highly oppose such a plan. It would be a giant tax increase, disastrous to the very working man and small business owners who Trump appealed to during his campaign.
They want to harm the working man and fleece us with fees while they continue to give literally trillions to foreign countries like Israel. Furthermore, these bastards never seem to care about the TRILLIONS of dollars which continuously disappear from the Pentagon budget. They don't even hold hearings on it!
Yes, our government is comprised of dishonest criminals. I don't agree with a plan that would fleece Americans with tolls and yet not get rid of the fuel tax.
