Obama formally approves yet another nickel-and-diming of the 99%

[brentspeak]

Right on the heels of his handpicked FCC cable lobbyist stooge opening the door to higher fees for tiered internet access.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/white-house-opens-door-to-tolls-on-interstate-highways-removing-long-standing-prohibition/2014/04/29/5d2b9f30-cfac-11e3-b812-0c92213941f4_story.html

White House opens door to tolls on interstate highways, removing long-standing prohibition

By Ashley Halsey III, Published: April 29

With pressure mounting to avert a transportation funding crisis this summer, the Obama administration Tuesday opened the door for states to collect tolls on interstate highways to raise revenue for roadway repairs.

The proposal, contained in a four-year, $302 billion White House transportation bill, would reverse a long-standing federal prohibition on most interstate tolling.

While providing tolling as an option to states, the White House proposal relies on funding from a series of corporate tax reforms, most of them one-time revenue streams that would provide a four-year bridge to close the trust-fund deficit and permit $150 billion more in spending than the gas tax will bring in.

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The corporate tax reform proposal has gotten a lukewarm reception even from Democrats in Congress, and Foxx emphasized that the administration is open to any counterproposal that wins bipartisan support.

The last sentence means: Obama was publicly claiming to want to close corporate tax loopholes instead of taxing the little guy, but never really meant it.

[kath]

1. yep, it just goes on and on and on and on and on and...

"Democrat" my ass.

[Nye Bevan]

2. How will the 1% be exempt from these tolls? (nt)

[rhett o rick]

3. Oh come on. These tolls are nothing to the 1%. They will hit the lower classes the hardest. But

the conservatives among us have no empathy and think the lower classes dont deserve to drive anywayz.

[m-lekktor]

5. wow. seriously?

you need this explained? smh

[Maven]

9. Yeah, we should just change to a flat tax too. Since that impacts everyone equally, right?

(FAIL)

[TheKentuckian]

12. In the same kind of way they aren't exempted from laws against sleeping under bridges or begging

for bread in the streets.

Please think about where the weight of this burden rests.

[woo me with science]

4. Not just nickel and diming. Limiting movement and increasing surveillance and control,

while lining the pockets of billionaires.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

7. Yet another tightening of the grip around the neck while the nation looks at flickering screens,

oblivious like a frog in a pan of water.

[Ned Flanders]

13. spot on!

Of course the new toll booths will require cameras, with associated automatic recording of license plates.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

6. "We don't want the rif-raff whose jobs we've shipped abroad to drive their

hoopties on our commerce corridors anymore. Put up some toll gates." - The Oligarchy

[Enthusiast]

8. Since the President is proposing all these "good" things just imagine

how it will boost enthusiasm for the 2014 midterm election.

Sort of reminds me of the good things leading up to the 2010 election.

I predicted this would happen.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. On the way to a breakfast hubby and I were talking about it

and I will take your conclusion a step further. They do not want a cynical public involved at all. PERIOD.

So these things are designed to do that.

Hey they VOTED right? The few who benefit from this policies that is.

[brentspeak]

11. kick