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Re: Pay to drive faster?

#7095
From: Geoff Miller
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:45
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Steve  <hde@wbn.inv> writes:

> Some critics derisively refer to the express lanes as "Lexus lanes"
> that allow drivers with deeper pockets to buy special treatment on
> highways built using fuel taxes collected from everyone.


Tough shit.  Life is better for people with more money that it is
for people with less money.  This is news?  If anyone wants to enjoy
that and other privileges, they should work to better themselves:
more education, more drive and ambition, and what have you.

Of course, those who want to take direct action to express their
displeasure could always begin by shooting random tollbooth workers.

As far as my area is concerned, with the exception of those who work
in the toolbooths at the Golden Gate Bridge, toll takers tend to be
ill-tempered, lower-class Negroes who refuse to make eye contact, let
alone say "Thank you."  A campaign of selective blowings-away might
just be what the proverbial doctor ordered, attitude adjustment-wise.



Geoff
--
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From: geoffm@lava.net (Geoff  Miller)
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Subject: Re: Pay to drive faster?
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Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:45:21 -0000
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