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Toll roads are a disastor. Do you realize that in Dallas and Houston, the average toll bill is $200/month? Spending 10% of the average workers income just to drive is a huge drain and more than the average worker can bear
Because you're paying tolls and still paying state+federal gas taxes. Double hit. Plus the toll roads in TX aren't privatized; if they were the costs would be lower. Government can only raise costs; never lower them.
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Because you're paying tolls and still paying state+federal gas taxes. Double hit. Plus the toll roads in TX aren't privatized; if they were the costs would be lower. Government can only raise costs; never lower them.
Except that Cintra, the contractor for most of the Dallas and Houston area tollways, was given 50 year non-compete clauses in their contracts, which also means that TxDOT can't by law improve any roads which are seen as being in the "sphere" of the tollways, as it might reduce demand for the tollways, and Cintra has been jacking rates in the last couple years
Because you're paying tolls and still paying state+federal gas taxes. Double hit. Plus the toll roads in TX aren't privatized; if they were the costs would be lower. Government can only raise costs; never lower them.
Texas has no income tax so of course toll roads are used to get revenue. And yes, many are privatized and this system is crony capitalism at its worst.
What the OP said I think is true, that crowd despises capitalism. Unchecked Capitalism is a bad thing, but overall I'm for it.
This is just meaningless rhetoric with no specifics on any policy. Sanders doesnt even want to nationalize the banks that crashed the economy causing the American taxpayer to bail them out. He simply wants to break them up and jail the crooks but not run the banks. If he despised any market approach or capitalism, those banks would be the first to be run by the government.
Do their supporters want us to turn into Europe? Do they want free stuff? Hate capitalism?
The appeal likely varies by individual, but broadly speaking, Bernie Sanders was the only principles candidate who ran in either major party who showed civility, humility, and credibility. Many do believe a social democratic system is a superior system. I can't speak much to Stein's appeal aside from her anti-elitism, to which Sanders also has this same appeal.
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