Editorial: Taxpayers, Not Illiana Investors, Would Be On the Hook

When last we left the proposed Illiana Expressway, we voiced our concern about the toll-road concept.

Leave no doubt about it. Tolls are an ecological disaster. Needless gallons of gas are burned as cars or trucks slow, idle or wait in line to pay tolls, pick up toll tickets or pay them. The situation is somewhat better than in the past with the advent of electronic toll zappers. Those, by the way, are the perfect metaphor for today’s government. You loan the state $40 at a time. It electronically removes the money from your charge card while you do nothing at all. It’s like a tax on breathing.

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