Death to TollRoadsNews

Toll Roads News, a “journalistic venture” by some liberal cretin, is truly the stuff of legendary nightmares capable of inducing suicide, heart attack, coma and even death in some.  Such generic, and furthermore excessively stupid, nonsense is vile. A pro-toll propagandist, to this end using liberal rhetoric that surely finds fans amongst the anti-tax and individualist imbeciles, a vile monsterous perversion of all sensibility of any worth–

CRUSH THE TOLLCISTS!

Anyway, let’s closer examine the idiocy of this nonsensical “background” article closer:

Around the world there’s an upsurge in toll roads because tax financing is not producing good enough highways.

Of course, this is strictly not true. There are several reasons that a State would want to pursue toll road financing rather than tax income and public spending; but “good enough” (quality) is not one of them. The state might have very limited funds available, or desire to shift the responsibility onto a body which it in turn can blame (to avoid it self being blamed) for any potential problems that arise with the execution and operation of a motorway or a system of such.

The reason for this “upsurge” is many, but this “upsurge” is largely illusory outside of parts of Europe and the U.S. Much of the world has for long time had motorways being primarily tolled networks. British advisor’s in the 1950′s encouraged Japan to establish a network of toll roads to speed up the development of new roads and infrastructure.  In the U.S. and Europe, those politicians and organisations arguing for the establishment of more toll systems (many always have and still do, exist) use various ideological arguments at times to justify their decisions, arguing from (like the author of that moronic piece of yellow “journalism” that is the TRN) the liberal market-loving perspective, but the true reason is simply one of cheapness. The U.S., burdened by the perverse disease known as Congress and the corrupt Senate, full of failed politicians the brain-dead American public constantly vote in and cherish like the sacred cow of liberty, has for long time been unwilling to provide funding for roads, and thick-witted local governments remain just as unwilling and inexcusably inept. Thus, they ponder different solutions, and one of those is giving the mission to a corrupt money-hungry investment banker, the vilest devils of them all; a good example of this kind of verminous dregs are the filthy criminal scum of Macquarie Infrastructure Group.

Voters reject tax hikes because they don’t get highway value for the tax dollar.

Voters reject tax hikes because most of the time they are short-sighted idiots, something politicians and corrupt commercial enterprises like to encourage. This is not always the case however. Phoenix voted yes to a series of tax increases to fund the regional motorway network, and Phoenix is a terrible desert hell-hole. This has nothing to do with “highway value for tax dollar”, a majority of voters don’t think in such terms, and furthermore, even if they did so, there would be no meaningful way of comparison, no picture complete to make it easy to comprehend, the geography of the matter is far too complex. Something our intellectually challenged “journalist” would have a hard time understanding.

And they are frustrated by congestion on inadequate overloaded roads & tie-ups which cost tens of billions in wasted fuel, missed meetings, downtime from work, and unnecessary pollution and accidents.

Oh, personalisation of the problematique, great. Never fails to convince idiots of whatever you’re trying to sell.

Tolling is a way to build and rebuild roads without having to resort to taxes. Toll roads dip into the capital markets for their funds, not into taxpayers’ pockets.

Capital markets funds came from nowhere. Typical liberal rhetoric, “not into tax payers pockets”. Alluding to the whole “tax is theft” argument. If something is theft, property is. Propertarian cunt.

It’s the fairest system and the most efficient…

As fair as fair tax. Never seen that nonsense before.

And the prospective toll revenues will often allow special measures such as the complete undergrounding of roads in environmentally sensitive areas, special services such as separate cars-only roadways, and electronic guideways for hands-off, feet-off driving (the ‘automated highway’) to make roads safer.

Prospective. An often absent prospect, I might add. Since when is the automated highway a good thing anyway? It’s basically an new form of that old stupid concept of Personal Rapid Transit. It’s as stupid and loathsome as flying cars. And those other things apply to tax-funded projects all the same, but to be honest, roads are rarely tunnelled due to environmental concerns. As is known, at best, it only shifts the location of the pollution. It’s generally done to satisfy whiny NIMBY’s and people whose idea of environmental concern is fighting something they think is “ugly” from being near them.

Because of the logic in favour of tolling

Shit logic.

major new road projects around the world will mostly be built as toll facilities

Not because of your great toll-logic, even if so.

And increasingly as old highways need rebuilding private sector funds and management will be needed. Tolls will be the way people pay.

Fuck your system.

The important thing is they all bring highway service into the market economy.

Oh, no, I know where this is going. Do you?

Change is difficult. The automobile is an intensely ideological contrivance and its associated infrastructure is equally controversial. An important part of elite opinion dreams of a return to rail transit and bicycles, and opposes most new provision for motor vehicles. Populists denounce tolls as “taxes” and assert that “we have already paid for roads” in gas taxes.

ELITE! Is that the so called “liberal elite” (meaning soft-centrist social-liberals in the U.S.)? We can see from what political perspective this person speaks. He speaks for the liberal capitalists, the children of the 1980′s, the Raygunites, the psychotic lunatics, the raving insane, for the owners of investment banks, for the supporting pillars of world capitalism. You’re not being controversial, your controversy is an illusion. You’re perfectly in line with what is expected.

Tolls are not taxes but the price for a service. Now that service may be well or poorly provided. It may, or may not, be considered value for money. But the user-pays principle of tolls – that those who benefit from a road pay directly for its use – is good.

No. The user-pays principle is always bad. That’s the argument of those who oppose any social programs. “Why should I pay for their (insert some nonsense about homeless, hobos, drunks, criminals as slurs for poor people) health care/ education / whatever?” Mind you I am not a supporter of the price system whatsoever however. But this is not about what I want. This is about how vile this person is.

So army engineers have built roads and general taxes have been used to finance them, but in the early days of the industrial revolution the most common method was the corvee, or forced labor. Each able-bodied citizen was required to present himself with pick, shovel or other tools to work for several days per year fixing the local roads & or else send a substitute. ‘Pitching in’ for the common good worked when the people doing the work were the ones who benefitted so the corvee sometimes worked on a very small scale, but most roads are used by outsiders and the people doing the work then resent it.

“Why should we slave away, take time off from our income-producing job when the guy who benefits is that merchant passing through or those sightseers going by?” they ask. The ‘corvee’ was described in the late 18th century in England as a “ridiculous farce” because of evasion, favoritism, loitering and general ineffectiveness (p101) In Virginia citizens eligible for statute labor were described as “working out the road tax” and taxed the equivalent hourly wage rate if they failed to show up for statutory road work. Like other kinds of taxation the corvee was seen as unfair and oppressive and enlightened thinkers argued for the user-pays principle.

Enlightened scum argued for the user-pays principle. Notice also the intentional induction of “forced labour” and the comparison of this with taxation (as well as classic liberal slurs, “unfair” (poor rich folks worked so hard to earn their honest money!) and “oppressive”, totally original nonsense. Fuck you.

“When the carriages which pass over a highway or bridge…pay toll in proportion to their weight or tonnage, they pay for the maintenance of those public works exactly in proportion to the wear and tear which they occasion of them. It seems scarcely possible to determine a more equitable way of maintaining such works.” So wrote the famous thinker Adam Smith in his “Wealth of nations.”

What’s with this use of the strange wording “thinker” anyway? Fuck Adam Smith. Fuck the Wealth of Nations.

At a time when Americans (and many other peoples) are skeptical about the value they get back for taxes paid seeking loans and investment secured against toll revenues is often the only practical way to finance needed new roads

Blah blah. Ugh. I get a headache.

Only overhead gantries such as those used for signage are needed for the electronic toll ‘readers’ and for video license plate recognition cameras. In this way electronic tolls can be collected more economically than road taxes and are less likely to be squandered by politicians and bureaucrats!

Typical anti-tax liberal American.

A further major advantage of tolls in the era of microcircuitry and electronic communications is that toll rates can be varied by time-of-day to help combat traffic congestion and guarantee a swift trip through to those who really need it, as measured by their willingness to pay a premium for that privelege. As the stop-&-go traffic on the urban highways of America and Europe make painfully clear, highway space is a scarce and highly valued commodity, especially during rush hours. The prices of food, telephone calls, fuel, airline seats, metals and many other items vary according to supply and demand to the benefit of consumers and suppliers alike and there is every reason why urban highwayspace should do the same. It will provide revenues to improve transportation facilities, help transit compete, and persuade those who can reorganize their movement to leave the scarce roadspace to those motorists who need it most. Best of all it will offer people choices & spend less, get less or pay a premium for premium road service. It’s the way the rest of the market economy works.

So much for being controversial. The market economy is failure.

Such toll projects if properly implemented will be win-win reforms.

Reformist! I hate reformists! Shitty reforms at that.

“There’s a simple solution to this traffic problem. We’ll have business build the roads. And government build the cars.”
- Will Rogers quoted Bay Area Council

Liberal humour is so unfunny.

“There’s no such thing as a free road. There’s a toll road, or there’s a taxing road, or there’s no road.” Our adaptation of an IBTTA (the tollsters trade association) slogan. 1996

If free is the absence of the price system, then there is such a thing as a free road. Tollroad Pigs Lobbyist Propaganda Association.

“Road building is not a government monopoly any more. Those days are over.”

- Federico Pena, US Secretary of Transportation, Transportation Research Board address, Washington DC, January 8, 1996.

Again, what a surprising thing for a populist idiot to say. Since when was road building a government monopoly anyway? The only thing that has been anything even remotely approaching that is planning and funding… But idiots, etc.

Apparently the ingrates in the Netherlands are planning to enact a road pricing scheme… sickening– the world is spiralling into an abyss of failure the likes of which never have been seen before.

In closing, Toll Roads News suck.

This fail knows no bounds.

A local newspaper recently proclaimed that McCain was ”the candidate with which the world would have the most ease cooperating”. This coming from a newspaper published by the mentally limited Liberal Newspaper Ltd., it comes as no surprise, but its sheer idiocy is too much; one really cannot help but cringe at the thought. McCain was, after all, the deranged old bastard who stood up on a stage and with a screeching voice sang, “BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN!” Of course he’s going to be a great diplomat. He’ll send hellfire raining down upon all nations disagreeing with his Christian delusions.

On a lighter note, I have not eaten much of anything for a good twenty six hours. I consumed some popcorn as a substitute. Very good, indeed, save the fact that not eating has left me feeling kind of nauseous. But I guess the awesomeness evens out in the end.

And as I relish in my own misery, there comes a short flash from a pesky ad someplace, a disgusting little blurb that hits me in the forehead like a sledgehammer; the event has the dimensions of a colossal asteroid impact; it’s that guy with the sweaty reflective and sullen forehead and the ridiculous expression on his face, the Christian lunatic – none other than the Devil himself – or whatever evil deity you might classify him as – Ron Paul. He’s back again with his receding hairline, the wrinkles and the Constitution, he’s back with mongrel supporters that make fan-art quality campaign contributions, cheesy advertisement that makes you retch—it’s a total and utter horror show; lunatic supporters running around freely in the streets, lighting a few bongs and screaming something about the evils of the Federal government, NAO, and how good rebels they are for not paying taxes, how the “truth” about 9/11 must come out—

It’s the FEMA death camps again, it’s Alex Jones, it’s Ron Paul, he’s the only hope; like brown and partly dried blood, he flows over the world, a thick mud-like substances that smells of iron – ironworks, gold – he’s talking about the gold standard and how it will save the U.S. from all things bad, smacking his conservative fist in the face of neo-liberal conservatives like Dick Army; It’s not Tom De Lay, it’s La Vey, the individualist sock puppet who wrote the “Satanic Bible”, what a bunch of drivel—

And no, for the hundredth time, the Trans-Texas Corridor, a project to build a network of over-dimensioned tolled motorways combined with railways and various pipelines, is not a part of some “FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LAND GRAB”, YOU FUCKING IDIOTS. It’s a quite poorly planned project, way over-sized and quite frankly uneconomic, but it is not a federal government land grab. The project is within the state of Texas. No plans exist to extend the TTC outside Texas so far, though some cheapskate state governments wanting infrastructure to come without much cost and effort for them might look into expanding tollways. The “NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY” is a collection of existing roadways of NATIONAL IMPORTANCE. What part do you not understand?

Tolled motorways suck like suburban sprawl, and so does Ron Paul.