"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On 20 Nov 2006 10:12:10 -0800, jamesgangnc penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Getting them interested is not the problem....

If I read your response correctly, you missed my point. The money for
the ICW is being collected from commercial shippers through fuel use
taxes... the money has already been "collected," it just isn't being
spent where is was earmarked.... and the ICW, required to be
maintained to a certain level by Federal Law, is being left to wither.

They are digging in your pockets at Kerr Lake because there isn't a
"usage" fee for the owners of the lake. "Administrative costs" are a
lot like a "handling fee" for shipping an item... you are buying
nothing but blue sky.

Wait until the idiots in Raleigh start going after your pocketbook
with toll roads. It isn't enough to have the 4th highest state tax on
fuel... now they need to find an extra $900,000,000.00+ to build a
toll bridge in Wilmington.

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Just listening to a discussion on toll roads Saturday while returning from
fishing. The Public to Private partnership on privately built toll roads
also prevents the public (Government in newspeak) from being in competition,
so they will not maintain the parallel roads. Forcing you on to the toll
road.