Re: Making ALL Roads Into TOLL Roads

From: The Etobian (pdcorc_at_excite.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:33:46 GMT

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:19:24 -0800, Scott en Aztlán
<slothkills@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote:

>The more miles you drive, the more tax you pay. This should cut down
>on wasted trips, not encourage them.

That's the way it works now. With every 34 miles I drive on the
highway, the feds get 18.3 cents and Mass. gets 21 cents.

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