Obama’s transportation reauthorization bill, which was released last week, is his latest scheme to tax and track you.
Federal law prohibits the conversion of freeways into toll roads, but what’s the law to Obama?
Not only would we have to pay to use our interstates which have been free for 60 years, but rest assured this is as much an effort to track your movements on the highway as most will elect to utilize a card instead of constantly digging for change.
Need we ask what our wimpy, complicit Congress will do with this bill? No matter, Obama has a pen and a phone.
The White House is far from done with the promised “fundamental transformation” of society. Secret courts issue general warrants enabling the government to listen to every telephone call and read every email. Drones take to the skies to monitor everyone below, and still the administration is not satisfied. President Obama’s transportation reauthorization bill, released last week, would demolish one of the greatest American accomplishments of the 20th century in a way that will create one more opportunity to spy.
Since it was begun nearly 60 years ago, the interstate highway system has been a boon to commerce. Anyone with a car or truck and a few tanks of gasoline — whether a vacationing family in a station wagon or an 18-wheeler packed with goods — could travel from coast-to-coast on safe, high-speed roads, largely without a toll booth to collect coins thrown into a basket. That would all change under Mr. Obama’s latest scheme to eliminate the freedom of the open road. He would require everyone to have a toll transponder to register every Sunday drive and morning commute with the federal government.
Federal law currently prohibits the conversion of existing freeways into toll roads, though the rule has been bent over the past few years. Greedy bureaucrats, Republican and Democrat alike, have pushed pilot projects to create “Lexus lanes” that promise the wealthy a speedy journey in a taxpayer-funded lane, for a fee, without worrying about their progress impeded by working-class commuters. The District of Columbia, for instance, has revealed a plan to create Lexus lanes (or Cadillac channels) on the 14th Street Bridge and Interstate 295 as part of a scheme to raise $2 billion from Virginians and Marylanders. It’s the commuter tax the city has wanted for decades.
It’s a shakedown, pure and simple, but some conservatives are deluded by the notion that this is a “free market” idea because the government colludes with crony businesses in a “public-private partnership.” There’s nothing free about it.
The public has an occasional impulse to throw out the politicians who get carried away with tax increases. Politicians are a sneaky lot and have realized they can outsource the revenue increases to a private company. The public is powerless to vote out the foreign corporations given control of setting toll rates under toll-road leases that can last as long as 99 years.
In return for their service to politicians, the private companies pocket at least 22 percent of the revenue they collect. This is the cost of overhead for the expensive transponder-reading equipment, a billing department, customer service, lawyers and a host of busybodies required for operation. The interstate highways built under President Eisenhower have never needed marketing departments or advertising budgets.
When Congress takes up the transportation bill, it must not allow the president to undermine the interstates that are fundamental to America’s transportation system. The government is already intrusive and expensive without this highway robbery.
‘More mockery of the law…
Bleeding us dry.
HE NEEDS TO BE GONE
The next shirt to say Spongebob is smarter then your President.
http://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-weigh-role-benghazi-probe-073852679–politics.html
House Democrats are weighing their role in the Benghazi Investigation, Obstruction of Justice is the term they are looking for.
Just what Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Susan Rice have done since the Terrorist Attack.
You would have thought all the Youtube Videos posted of the Terrorists Attack at Benghazi would have helped to get some of the Terrorists involved in the attack brought to justice.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152166347362690&set=a.10152166347322690.1073742134.16775672689&type=1
A good President knows and loves the people of the United States.
We don’t have one.
http://www.officialteapartyusa.com/pt/Boko-Haram-Another-Terror-Group-Legitimized-by-Obama-Administration/blog.htm#.U20ozFr-5bI.facebook
http://www.truthandaction.org/arming-enemy-obama-gives-al-qaeda-terrorists-syria-tow-anti-tank-weapons/
http://bit.ly/Qj7oW9
https://www.facebook.com/yaliberty/photos/a.420478680196.191456.13187955196/10152108210925197/?type=1
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=639474882794782&set=a.175603185848623.44593.166618413413767&type=1
Shut down the FED, EPA, FEC, IRS, and the Bureau of Land Management, they have worked with Harry Reid, Barrack Obama, and Eric Holder. All the Federal Agencies of the United States are working against the interest of United States taxpayers and doing the will of Obama’s Administration and nothing else.
No Incumbents. Vote out every one of the liars and parasites of the House and Senate who refuse to keep their Oath of Office and will not do their job by firing Eric Holder, Barrack Obama, John Kerry, Joe Biden, and every one of Obama’s appointees and see that Harry Reid and the Bureau of Land Management are investigated by the FBI and the Justice Department.
The FBI should be conducting a RICO investigation of Barrack Obama, Harry Reid, Eric Holder, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, the EPA, the FEC, the IRS, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Bureau of Land Management.
Sharia Law is why women and children in Muslim nations are slaves. In Muslim nations women and children have the right to be quiet and the freedom to do as they are told. That is why Obama loves Muslims and Terrorists.
” Take the Human Rights and Freedoms from United States citizens and they will be peaceful and quiet and love you for it.” Liberals.
The Bill of Rights and the Constitution document our Human Rights and our Freedoms we have because the blood of Patriots bleed and died to buy them for us.
They are documented there so the rich good for nothing worthless parasites and liars like Barrack Obama and our current Senate and House do not forget we are Free. So far we still have the Freedom of Speech, this is not Kenya or Indonesia.
No Incumbents. Vote them out.
They have not fired Barrack Obama.
Sharia Law is why women and children in Muslim nations are slaves. In Muslim nations women and children have the right to be quiet and the freedom to do as they are told. That is why Obama loves Muslims and Terrorists.
” Take the Human Rights and Freedoms from United States citizens and they will be peaceful and quiet and love you for it.” Liberals.
This is not Kenya or Indonesia. Barrack Obama should be arrested for Treason. This is not a Dictatorship. Laws should not be written by one God.
Male Bovine Excrement! Any money raised in this tax would simply go into the “General Fund” to support more welfare vote buying schemes just like the supposed “lockbox” Social Security funds.
FREEDOM– Look the word up. When will you stop them from taking it away?? When is enough, enough?? What will you do?? The criminals are in charge of the white house!!
Everyone is going to wait for the next election to vote in another crook. Most will wait till they are really suffering before getting off the couch, what’s new.
he’s such an asswhole
American spring may 16.