Toll collectors making six-figure salaries...

[Bella Fortuna]

The solution is to use the available technology to eliminate the need to pay someone to stick their hand out, grasp bills and coins, and make change.

"pay someone to stick their hand out, grasp bills and coins, and make no changes" would be a politician, then...

[Tyrannical]

Toll roads are a stupid idea, very high overhead to raise money. If roads are important, State taxes should pay for them.

[MrJonno]

Toll roads are a stupid idea, very high overhead to raise money. If roads are important, State taxes should pay for them.

Isn't that a bit communist?

[Tyrannical]

Toll roads are a stupid idea, very high overhead to raise money. If roads are important, State taxes should pay for them.

Isn't that a bit communist?

I don't think so.
When you consider taxes, collection overhead is important as that effects the real revenue raised. Toll collection is probably the least efficient tax collection model.

[Coito ergo sum]

The solution is to use the available technology to eliminate the need to pay someone to stick their hand out, grasp bills and coins, and make change.

"pay someone to stick their hand out, grasp bills and coins, and make no changes" would be a politician, then...

Their job is even easier. They stick their hand out, grasp bills and coins, and then they just keep the change (obviating the mental energy needed to calculate the amount of change due).

I've been advocating a 50% pay cut for the President and every Congressman for years now. That, and they should fucking damn well pay for their own fucking god damn haircuts and healthcare! Suck it, monkeys!

[MrJonno]

Toll roads are a stupid idea, very high overhead to raise money. If roads are important, State taxes should pay for them.

Isn't that a bit communist?

I don't think so.
When you consider taxes, collection overhead is important as that effects the real revenue raised. Toll collection is probably the least efficient tax collection model.

It very effectively collects it from people who use the service, while I do support public services even if individuals don't use it is you are into libertarianism toll roads are a good example of that ideology in practice but is fact used by many countries as a way to fund new roads

[Coito ergo sum]

Toll roads are a stupid idea, very high overhead to raise money. If roads are important, State taxes should pay for them.

Isn't that a bit communist?

I don't think so.
When you consider taxes, collection overhead is important as that effects the real revenue raised. Toll collection is probably the least efficient tax collection model.

It very effectively collects it from people who use the service, while I do support public services even if individuals don't use it is you are into libertarianism toll roads are a good example of that ideology in practice but is fact used by many countries as a way to fund new roads

Inevitably, it turns into a boondoggle, where the cost of maintaining the tollbooths and paying the workers manning (personing?) them rises to meet the amount of the tolls, and tax money inevitably has to be used to maintain the actual roadways anyway. We may as well stop pretending that isn't the case, and avoid the pretense from the beginning.

[Tyrannical]

The solution is to use the available technology to eliminate the need to pay someone to stick their hand out, grasp bills and coins, and make change.

"pay someone to stick their hand out, grasp bills and coins, and make no changes" would be a politician, then...

Their job is even easier. They stick their hand out, grasp bills and coins, and then they just keep the change (obviating the mental energy needed to calculate the amount of change due).

I've been advocating a 50% pay cut for the President and every Congressman for years now. That, and they should fucking damn well pay for their own fucking god damn haircuts and healthcare! Suck it, monkeys!

I could indoctrinate you into the dark side.

[Coito ergo sum]

There is no dark side.

[Bella Fortuna]

The irony of a self-described racist enjoying being on the dark side...

[Coito ergo sum]

The irony of a self-described racist enjoying being on the dark side...

It's kind of like how the most vocal anti-gay guys always wind up on their knees in a men's room....

[Tyrannical]

The irony of a self-described racist enjoying being on the dark side...

Honestly, I'd prefer that racism was inherently wrong. The World would be much simpler that way.

[Coito ergo sum]

Nothing is "inherently" wrong. Wrong is a concept that only exists in the human mind.

Nothing is either good or bad, but that thinking makes it so. - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

[Tyrannical]

Nothing is "inherently" wrong. Wrong is a concept that only exists in the human mind.

Nothing is either good or bad, but that thinking makes it so. - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

Evil exists also in the mind of humans.
Is slavery morally wrong? I think so.

[Coito ergo sum]

Nothing is "inherently" wrong. Wrong is a concept that only exists in the human mind.

Nothing is either good or bad, but that thinking makes it so. - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

Evil exists also in the mind of humans.
Is slavery morally wrong? I think so.

It is to most people today. To some people it is morally right.

For most of human history it was morally right to most people. A lot of slaves didn't like it, of course. But, ask a Roman citizen in the year 100 whether slavery was morally wrong, and he'd look at you like you were crazy for even asking the question.

Moral rightness and wrongness is purely a matter of opinion. If humans did not exist to think about things, nothing would be "right" or "wrong." That's why we don't attribute moral wrongness to when a Tiger rips the throat out of a gazelle. It is. Whether it is right or wrong is a human invention.