Daily Herald Pimps for 88% Toll Tax Hike

Right out of the infomercial everyone attending the Illinois Toll Tax Hike hearings was forced to endure is the content of of the slide you see below:

The cost per mile for tolls would no longer be one of the lowest in the country. at Pat Quinn's 88% Toll Tax Hike. Click to enlarge.

The Daily Herald points out that Illinois I-PASS Toll Tax Slaves (just kidding; the Daily Herald doesn’t describe us as such) only pay three cents a mile.

The paper does not point out that on top of that three cents, Toll Tax Slaves pay State Motor Fuel Tax, the majority of which gets spent outside of the Chicago metropolitan area.

After the 88% Toll Tax Hike, the average cost per mile would be six cents per mile.

Really, that’s what the article says.

Does that sound like a 100% Toll Tax Hike to you, too?

Illinois Toll Tax Slaves would only be paying the average rate per mile paid on other toll roads.

Doesn’t that make you feel better about an almost doubling of tolls?

Then there is this incredibly ill-informed statement:

“…there’s no move here for the Illinois Department of Transportation to sponge on tollway revenues..”

Oh, really.

All of the tax on the fuel consumed by these Toll Tax Slaves is siphoned off to the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Does the Daily Herald reporter thing Motor Fuel Taxes paid on gasoline and diesel fuel used by vehicles to travel on the Tollway go to the Tollway?

Au contraire.

None goes to support the Tollway operation.

All goes to the Illinois Department of Transportation.


Comments

Daily Herald Pimps for 88% Toll Tax Hike — 2 Comments

  1. Kind of like you, Cal . . . pimping for litigation happy Linda Moore.

  2. Careful Cal, you’re getting “Gangsta!”

    Talk’n bout that ‘Straight Up’ Pimp’n, Street Cred is going “Fa Shisal in the Hissil!!!”

    Yo Boy, Snoop!

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