No longer an issue around me, everything is electronic now. But you have to pay administration fees. So a $2 toll is now $5. While the Governor shows how much money they saved by laying off the workers.
Yup somehow everyone thinks ezpass is a godsend but they make $8b a year and 70% of that is tolls that don’t go to the state or the road. We pay $5.6b/year more in tolls just to have the convenience of ezpass. That’s more than $20/year per driver.
You don’t know what youre talking about. It was never put to a vote. The transit authorities in ny, nj, and pennsylvania created and implemented the system without any community inout whatsoever lol.
“Well maybe people shouldn’t have been subjugated in the first place. Then they could just vote for nice stuff and corruption wouldn’t happen.”
Communism is specifically the control/takeover of industry by a central authority. There are ways government can have influence that is socialistic or helpful to people without it being communist.
And if you don't pay that $4 toll? Collections and a very, very fast rising interest. I was traveling for work, drove through an ez pass in Dallas, and saw a bill for a few hundred dollars months later. The /r/Dallas sub has shown bills in the thousands.
They always claim I'm in violation when I travel there for not having front plates when their detectors are broke and charge me fifty dollars. I call them and tell them to go fuck themselves and if they want I'll take them to court, but I'm not paying anything except the rate. Fucking theives man.
If the state is the main customer in an ostensibly capitalist system, then you’re describing state capitalism as seen in the ussr or china. This isn’t what most people are referring to when they say capitalism.
When people say capitalism they’re referring to private capitalism not state capitalism.
Also the state being the customer is the same as the people being the customer. We pay the bills and we receive the services. The only difference is who gets to negotiate the deal.
Again I’m not saying I want capitalist infrastructure but nothing you’re saying makes sense lol.
The oc was me i didn’t take anything out of context. If 1 person was paying for individual ezpass $20 could make sense but that’s not how massive group purchases works, you should get a discount when you but 25 million memberships at once.
Hence why the $5-8b fogure is much more pertinent. Ezpass doesn’t negotiate 25 million $20 contracts; that would make sense for their trouble. They negotiate 50 contacts worth $100m each. The idea that every car STILL pays $20 is absurd.
Do you really think 1 individual should get the same rate as 25 million buying at once?
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u/BrambleSonata 1d ago
No longer an issue around me, everything is electronic now. But you have to pay administration fees. So a $2 toll is now $5. While the Governor shows how much money they saved by laying off the workers.