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Which userfees and taxes would you like to see go up?

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AGEsAces


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and there's a difference between user fees and tolls.

tolls are a useless burden on society, which raise tension, costs, pollution, road rage, travel delays, and very little money for all the hassle.

More money will be collected JUST to pay for the collection service, than for what the toll is implemented for in the first place.

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Thats quite possible It was just an Idea.

AGEsAces

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Pavolo wrote:There are only so many bridges in Wpg and to go around is usually a long way out of the way.

you're kidding right?

i can get from most any point in Winnipeg to most any other point in Winnipeg in less than 45 minutes...and that's south end to north end of the city, using any of several different routes.

So to bypass a toll would probably SAVE me time, as I wouldn't have to wait in the traffic jam caused by the stupid toll booth to begin with.

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AGEsAces wrote:and there's a difference between user fees and tolls.

tolls are a useless burden on society, which raise tension, costs, pollution, road rage, travel delays, and very little money for all the hassle.

More money will be collected JUST to pay for the collection service, than for what the toll is implemented for in the first place.

Which means some party might go for it.
(Especially if the jobs are unionized.) Which userfees and taxes would you like to see go up? - Page 3 Icon_wink

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Yes you can I did not say you couldn't just that alot will take the most direct route ,, but then like you say this is Wpg and most tend to be cheap.

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Deank wrote:or more to the point a toll bridge would go unused considering the fact that people would just go use another one. We live in Winnipeg people. There are at most 700K of us. This means we ARE NOT CROWDED. This means we ARE NOT THAT BIG. This means that we dont have the scale of economies that other places do that implement toll roads and bridges that turn out to be successful.

But some of us like to spend money like WE ARE THAT BIG. Which userfees and taxes would you like to see go up? - Page 3 Icon_wink

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Which userfees and taxes would you like to see go up? - Page 3 Lol

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Outsider wrote:
Deank wrote:or more to the point a toll bridge would go unused considering the fact that people would just go use another one. We live in Winnipeg people. There are at most 700K of us. This means we ARE NOT CROWDED. This means we ARE NOT THAT BIG. This means that we dont have the scale of economies that other places do that implement toll roads and bridges that turn out to be successful.

But some of us like to spend money like WE ARE THAT BIG. Which userfees and taxes would you like to see go up? - Page 3 Icon_wink

When I wrote that comment I had not seen the NDP budget yet. Which userfees and taxes would you like to see go up? - Page 3 Icon_sad

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Outsider wrote:
Outsider wrote:
Deank wrote:or more to the point a toll bridge would go unused considering the fact that people would just go use another one. We live in Winnipeg people. There are at most 700K of us. This means we ARE NOT CROWDED. This means we ARE NOT THAT BIG. This means that we dont have the scale of economies that other places do that implement toll roads and bridges that turn out to be successful.

But some of us like to spend money like WE ARE THAT BIG. Which userfees and taxes would you like to see go up? - Page 3 Icon_wink

When I wrote that comment I had not seen the NDP budget yet. Which userfees and taxes would you like to see go up? - Page 3 Icon_sad

That's ok, Mother Rosann says it's ok to run a deficit....so borrow and spend away!

C'mon, everybody's doin' it!

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One would think that balanced budget legislation would require more then a simple majority to revoke or change.

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One would think they are supposed to know what they are doing , the goverment .

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Pavolo wrote:One would think they are supposed to know what they are doing , the goverment .

Dude, you need to learn how to structure a sentence properly.

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SuperNaut wrote:
Pavolo wrote:One would think they are supposed to know what they are doing , the goverment .

Dude, you need to learn how to structure a sentence properly.

Actually...aside from misspelling "government" and having an extra space before the ",", that was one of his better ones Smile.

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