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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (520793)	1/7/2004 12:02:10 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

It is foolish to look at one budget and exclude all others. The toll road shift of expenses is much less efficient than public streets or freeways. There is the cost of toll booths, cash handling, non compliance, radio tag payments, and enforcement. The businesses that would line a regular road will lose customers who don't want to pay to exit and reenter, that in turn cuts tax revenues further. The surrounding streets which were not meant for high volume traffic will fill with those who don't like tolls, left their wallet home today, or just don't want to wait in line for change because their toll tag expired. Instead of the government doing the kinds of things it does best we get a short sighted increase in the cost of living just so Junior can claim a manipulation in one category of budget. This is just one example of the tragedy of having leadership that can only keep one notion in their head at a time. TP