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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (97161)	12/16/2012 8:42:28 AM
From: teevee	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217830

Roads when I'm king will be paid for by tolls, which will vary by how crowded the roads are. So, in rush hour on busy roads, tolls will be so high that enough people will choose not to travel then, leaving the available space for people who actually do think it worthwhile to spend so much money on driving their car on that particular road at that particular time. Bad idea. Roads are critical economic infrastructure. The problem is allocation of road taxes on gasoline and diesel. In Canada, about 12% of Federal fuel tax goes back into roads versus 100% of provincial fuel taxes. If the billions of dollars of fuel taxes collected for roads actually went back into building and maintaining roads (instead of general revenues for pork barrel politics), the highway systems wouldn't be as decrepit as they are.