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Nothing like a moment of truth a few days before the election. Corzine has hinted to the NY Times that his toll plan may be revisited - that includes selling the Turnpike to a private, for-profit company and raising tolls on existing roads and enacting tolls on current freeways, such as I-195, I-78, I-287 and I-80.
I can just picture the delays at Parkway exit 142 when there's a big, fat toll plaza before you can get on I-78. Or, maybe exit 145 when you have to go through the exit toll, then an entrance toll to I-280. Oh yeah, and just imagine the salivating the Democrats must be doing over literally lining "the Atlantic to the Delaware" with tolls on I-195.
The only question we have to ask: when will it EVER be enough in this state? How many MORE ways can they get to separate us from our money to pay for their unfunded sweetheart union pension funds and tens of billions of dollars in school construction in the urban ratholes?
Nothing like a moment of truth a few days before the election. Corzine has hinted to the NY Times that his toll plan may be revisited - that includes selling the Turnpike to a private, for-profit company and raising tolls on existing roads and enacting tolls on current freeways, such as I-195, I-78, I-287 and I-80.
I can just picture the delays at Parkway exit 142 when there's a big, fat toll plaza before you can get on I-78. Or, maybe exit 145 when you have to go through the exit toll, then an entrance toll to I-280. Oh yeah, and just imagine the salivating the Democrats must be doing over literally lining "the Atlantic to the Delaware" with tolls on I-195.
The only question we have to ask: when will it EVER be enough in this state? How many MORE ways can they get to separate us from our money to pay for their unfunded sweetheart union pension funds and tens of billions of dollars in school construction in the urban ratholes?
As a State employee I will say this, the Pension fund was just fine until Christie Whitman raided it years back.
On the flip side, I hope the taxpayers of the State, including the State workers, wake up on election day and vote out Corzine and his political corruption machine that is destroying NJ.
You forgot the missing 8 billion in school construction funds.
If they ever decide to sell the roads that belong to US, that would be a disaster. Guliani has been repping for a big Spanish conglomerate that wants to buy up US toll roads anywhere they can. Once they own them they can do whatever they want. Charge you a dollar a foot if they want, they will have no check and balance back to any gov't or people.
That would be the worst. the toll roads are State highways on the books meaning we the citizens own them. The GSP is NJ State Highway 444 and the TPike is NJ State Highway 700. It would be like selling our water to a foreign country and having to pay them anything they want for a drop of water.
Bad idea.
As a State employee I will say this, the Pension fund was just fine until Christie Whitman raided it years back.
As a former municipal employee, I say amen!
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