To all who oppose tolls on I-80: go die in an infrastructure collapse!

Leave it to dirtbag republicans to gum up the works. The state of Pennsylvania needs money to maintain roads, bridges and mass transit systems. Three options were laid upon the table in order to do this: raise the gasoline tax, lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a private company or put toll booths on Interstate 80. Neither side of the legislative aisle relished the first two options, thus a compromise was made to toll I-80 in the form of Act 44. Perhaps not happy, at least everyone could be reasonably satisfied that a solution had been found and a compromise reached.

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