Please Make Me Pay Twice

I continue to be amazed that elected officials want their constituents to have to pay tolls to get to and from work. Why else would they now be begging for a new toll bridge across the Fox River.

First, Algonquin. Then, Huntley. Now West Dundee.

If I were a prospective candidate for village office, I would be out gathering petition signatures all summer against this effort to turn the Bolz Road Bridge into a toll bridge.

Other parts of the Illinois are smart enough to get their legislators to provide the money to build needed bridges.

In our part of Illinois, we obviously aren’t.

Governor Rod Blagojevich even intervened to stop talk of a toll bridge across the Mississippi in the St. Louis area.

Oh. I forgot to explain the title.

Motorists will pay the toll when they cross the bridge.

They will pay a second time every time they fill up their gas tanks.

It’s called Motor Fuel Tax.


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