Ok, this one isn't really North Carolina government, but it's close. The folks on the border of North Carolina, in Virginia, want to charge a toll to enter their state. While in the past, most tolls, especially over bridges, have been sold as a way to pay for the bridge, these people are coming right out and saying it isn't. Their toll is to build a landfill.

This shows how far government has gone from where it's supposed to be. Government in this country was not created to raise money -- but so many of those who are career politicians seems to think that is their primary purpose.

I remember the Newburg-Beacon bridge over the Hudson River in New York. It was widened in about 1979 or 1980. They put a toll on the bridge, just to pay for that widening. The toll is still in place.

Now these politicians admit they are not putting a toll in place to build roads or bridges. They are actually make people who drive through their town pay for the town to build a dump. That's just insanely wrong. Times like this I seriously wonder if a free republic has a chance of surviving.

Posted by: Ogre at 10:03 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 209 words, total size 1 kb.