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Fred,
All the things you "did get", take a second and look at those items......all you got was more expense to use what was "ours" originally. Making I-80 a toll road was bound to happen because all the money trucks pay for road use tax doesn't go back to repair the roads we use. The money is squandered on frivilous crap like bicycle paths, time and motion wave studies on remote lakes that are of no consequence to anyone. Not to mention the big money spent on the "what causes flooding" study. After one year and about 4 million dollars the answer was clear.....rain. How many goverment dopes does it take to figure this out? When transportation companies use the turnpike we have to pay the toll, plus we also have to file a road fuel use tax report and pay based on the miles run there, not to mention the Pennsylvania "Franchise Tax" which states that if a trucking company makes more than a dozen deliveries in PA in one year we have to file a franchise tax report and pay that also. For a tractor trailer to run from Pittsburgh to Philly on the toll road @80,000 lbs costs us $125.00. Our company has ceased all operations in PA due to the excessive cost, opressive and biased nature of their tax and enforcement policies. I'm sure most folks in PA will embrace Obamas new ammunition bill because big goverment is here to save us from ourselves. I for one don't feel a bit sorry for anyone in PA due to the fact that most of those folks have turned their life over to the goverment to take care of all their needs. I wish you all well with the union mentality and the Democrats.
I look forward to your response.
All the things you "did get", take a second and look at those items......all you got was more expense to use what was "ours" originally. Making I-80 a toll road was bound to happen because all the money trucks pay for road use tax doesn't go back to repair the roads we use. The money is squandered on frivilous crap like bicycle paths, time and motion wave studies on remote lakes that are of no consequence to anyone. Not to mention the big money spent on the "what causes flooding" study. After one year and about 4 million dollars the answer was clear.....rain. How many goverment dopes does it take to figure this out? When transportation companies use the turnpike we have to pay the toll, plus we also have to file a road fuel use tax report and pay based on the miles run there, not to mention the Pennsylvania "Franchise Tax" which states that if a trucking company makes more than a dozen deliveries in PA in one year we have to file a franchise tax report and pay that also. For a tractor trailer to run from Pittsburgh to Philly on the toll road @80,000 lbs costs us $125.00. Our company has ceased all operations in PA due to the excessive cost, opressive and biased nature of their tax and enforcement policies. I'm sure most folks in PA will embrace Obamas new ammunition bill because big goverment is here to save us from ourselves. I for one don't feel a bit sorry for anyone in PA due to the fact that most of those folks have turned their life over to the goverment to take care of all their needs. I wish you all well with the union mentality and the Democrats.
I look forward to your response.