Why is the Republican party so content with denying healthcare as a human right, and trying everything they can to harm people who need any sort of assistance? Like… How do they do it? How much are we talking here when we speak about tax savings for them?
Pretend I am rich? Like how much money am I getting back by Republicans kicking men off healthcare or destroying insurance for those who need it most. It must be alot right?
Roads (not streets) should absolutely be tolled. And adding onto this, any given piece of property should be required to pay the full burden of the infrastructure maintenance required to serve it. The failure to impose appropriate costs like these is a big part of why many areas see rampant suburban sprawl and car dependency: when using the roads is free, you are incentivized to use the free resource as much as possible.
The same thing would happen if the government said they were giving out unlimited free flour to everyone. Everyone would start using flour as much as possible for as many things as possible (cue Tiktoks explaining how to use flour as makeup, or how to use flour to patch drywall), and you would have to stand in line forever in order to carry away your big armloads of flour, and hope the government flour depot didn’t run out before you got there.
And that’s what happens with untolled roads. Sitting in traffic is you waiting in line to recieve the underpriced resource of road access. What we actually want is the ability of people to transport themselves from point A to point B quickly, effectively, and affordably, and the solution to that is transit.
Toll roads, then exempt busses from the tolls.