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"Colin W Kingsbury" wrote in message
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Up here in Taxachusetts there's a long-standing feud over tolls on the
Massachusetts Turnpike. The law that authorized the bond issue to build
the
pike said, tolls will be charged until the bonds are paid off, then the
tolls shall end. Well, the bonds were paid off more than 10 years ago,
but
the tollbooths persist.

Same deal here in Florida. Florida's turnpike was paid off about a
decade
ago, the promise was always that the tolls would go away when the bonds
were
paid. The reality was that they instead drastically increased the tolls.

The basic lesson here is that there is no such thing as a temporary
tax.

Vaughn

Same story in Illinois.

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"Vaughn" wrote in message
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"Colin W Kingsbury" wrote in message
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Up here in Taxachusetts there's a long-standing feud over tolls on the
Massachusetts Turnpike. The law that authorized the bond issue to build
the
pike said, tolls will be charged until the bonds are paid off, then the
tolls shall end. Well, the bonds were paid off more than 10 years ago,
but
the tollbooths persist.

Same deal here in Florida. Florida's turnpike was paid off about a
decade
ago, the promise was always that the tolls would go away when the bonds
were
paid. The reality was that they instead drastically increased the tolls.

The basic lesson here is that there is no such thing as a temporary
tax.

Vaughn

Same story in Illinois.

Gentlemen,

You guys fought the war of independence to get away from unfair taxation.

why have you surrendered now?