Did waaaaaaay too much driving yesterday, and had a busy day today. I'm sleeping in tomorrow.
As an aside, were I a resident of Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Indiana or Illinois, and the politicians were wah-wah-wahing about needing more money for roads, I would personally tell each and every one of them to go outside and play "Hide and Go Fuck Yourself". The tolls I paid were unreal. I easily spent half my gas budget just on tolls, and in quite a few spots that money wasn't going towards roads at all, or at least not according to the bumps, potholes and various other issues. At one point the Ragin' Mrs. woke up and asked if the roads were really that bad or if I was running over a herd of turtles.
And I know for a fact that Chicago is making miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillions of dollars in tolls. Where is that money going to? Ask the politicians. They're the ones spending it. Fucking corrupt pieces of crap.
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As a resident of Indiana, I can't begin to tell you where the money goes.
All I know is that when I was a kid:
Our sales tax was 4%, now it's 7%
We had no lottery, now we have games out the ying-yang, along with casinos and riverboat gambling
I paid for my ('87-'91) college by working part time and it was less than $1K per semester, now it's somewhere over 4 times that
The money is clearly going in somebody's pockets or we have a whole hell of a lot more socialism recipients sucking it up.
(Illinois is easy: there ARE politicians lining their pockets and the whole rest of the state subsidizes the welfare of Chicago)
Indiana next to the Illinois border was the worst, with Ohio coming in a close second. I think it's amazing how the states with the most tolls had the worst roads. At least New York was fixing theirs.
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