And Republicans Are Supposed To Be Against Taxes!
The Trans Texas Corridor is an elaborate plan conceived by Rick Perry, and supported by Frank Corte, that forces Texans to pay to drive on roads we constructed with our own tax dollars!
That’s right. We pay twice.
Sal Costello of Austin found that no time in the history of U.S. transportation did a state or city build a road and then turn it into a toll road effectively taxing citizens twice. Why would our Republican Governor and his supporters do such a thing? In December 2004, investigators learned Rick Perry had taken in more then one million dollars in campaign contributions from toll and road lobbyists. In the entire United States, only 5000 miles of roads are tolled. Perry plans to add 4000 miles of toll roads in Texas alone. The price tag is over $180 billion. This is House Bill 3588. To read the bill in its entirety, with the relevant sections highlighted in red, click here.
Governor Rick Perry, Frank Corte, and other members of the inner Republican political circle are currently holding secret meetings with Cintra, part of parent company, Ferrovial, located in Spain, about the management of the concessions. The no-bid award of a 50-year lease is currently being discussed. Cintra would reap the profits from fuel stops, restaurants, transfer points and other revenue-producing businesses on the 4000 miles of toll roads. Such a contract would impact hundreds of small businesses already located on the access roads by limiting the transfer points on the toll roads.
And the taxation is not a minimal expense. The estimated cost is $3000 per Texas family, per year.
We cannot allow the taxing of public highways. People for Effective Transportation write, “We can longer vote along party lines. We must shop the ballot, de-elect the looters and elect the better candidate”. In Texas District 122, that candidate is Larry Stallings.
That’s right. We pay twice.
Sal Costello of Austin found that no time in the history of U.S. transportation did a state or city build a road and then turn it into a toll road effectively taxing citizens twice. Why would our Republican Governor and his supporters do such a thing? In December 2004, investigators learned Rick Perry had taken in more then one million dollars in campaign contributions from toll and road lobbyists. In the entire United States, only 5000 miles of roads are tolled. Perry plans to add 4000 miles of toll roads in Texas alone. The price tag is over $180 billion. This is House Bill 3588. To read the bill in its entirety, with the relevant sections highlighted in red, click here.
Governor Rick Perry, Frank Corte, and other members of the inner Republican political circle are currently holding secret meetings with Cintra, part of parent company, Ferrovial, located in Spain, about the management of the concessions. The no-bid award of a 50-year lease is currently being discussed. Cintra would reap the profits from fuel stops, restaurants, transfer points and other revenue-producing businesses on the 4000 miles of toll roads. Such a contract would impact hundreds of small businesses already located on the access roads by limiting the transfer points on the toll roads.
And the taxation is not a minimal expense. The estimated cost is $3000 per Texas family, per year.
We cannot allow the taxing of public highways. People for Effective Transportation write, “We can longer vote along party lines. We must shop the ballot, de-elect the looters and elect the better candidate”. In Texas District 122, that candidate is Larry Stallings.
posted by dksbook at 8:21 AM
2 Comments:
Using Windows XP, Mozilla Firefox. Links to TexasTollParty and to Cintra don't work.
Yup, I checked with Mozilla, and the links were defective. Thanks for the heads-up. I just removed the offenders until I can re-establish good links. But no subsequent readers will miss much.
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