Time: Sun Mar 16 07:13:52 1997
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 07:08:59 -0800
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: checkpoints on U.S. interstate highways (fwd)

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>Clinton moves ahead with TOLLS/CHECKPOINTS for US INTERSTATES
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Wednesday March 12 4:17 PM EST
>
>Clinton plan could hike tolls
>
>WASHINGTON, March 12 (UPI)  President Clinton's new transportation budget,
>if approved by Congress, would allow states to begin placing tolls in the
>middle of interstate highways.
>
>Administration officials said Wednesday they have no specific requests
>pending from states that want to introduce such tolls, but are nevertheless
>proposing the change so states have the option.
>
>Deputy Secretary of Transportation Mortimer Downey said the idea for
>expanding toll authority was ``one of the things we heard as we went around
>the country, that state and local governments are looking for ways to
>increase'' their transportation revenues.
>
>States currently can place tolls on bridges and tunnels that are on the
>interstate system, but not the highway sections themselves.
>
>The president's proposal would allow states the option to introduce such
>tolls, Downey said, although federal law would continue to require the tolls
>to be ``just and reasonable.''
>
>Although the federal government paid for 90 percent of the original cost of
>building the interstate highway system, Downey said the state and local
>governments would get to keep any money they charge in tolls.
>
>_-
>
>Copyright 1997 by United Press International.
>
>All rights reserved.
>
>What no one seems to realize is that these TOLL STATIONS ARE CHECK POINTS
>ALSO !!!  At these Checkpoints/TOLLS not only is your pocket picked AGAIN
>but so is your privacy. By again I mean you already paid the 18 cents a
>gallon gas excise tax, the per tire excise tax (both PERFECTLY
>Constitutional, just, fair, and proper indirect excise taxes on CERTAIN
>commodities) the sales tax to buy your car, the reg and license fees
>(perfectly UNconstitutional for NONcommercial drivers). By privacy I mean
>even with CURRENT PLATES, and OCR technology, Optical Character Recognition
>used in text conversion software, EVERYONE's comings and goings are EASILY
>and efficiently tracked.  Also emissions checks can occur at these tolls.
>Also Clinton has proposed to make ALL new licensees submit to BLOOD and
>URINE TESTS. 

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