[PAA-Discuss] FW: Looter Sen. Watson to Divert $700 Million in Taxes for Tolls
zappa2004
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Fri Sep 7 03:46:33 EDT 2007
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From: Texas Toll Party [mailto:Sal at TexasTollParty.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:14 PM
To: zappa2004 at earthlink.net
Subject: Looter Sen. Watson to Divert $700 Million in Taxes for Tolls
MAKE HISTORY ATTEND T-DAY
Help STOP the first Freeway Tolls in the History of the
US!
Our elected representatives are seeking to steal our tax
dollars and our freeways to create a
freeway toll tax on our families. This will pass if we
don't show up in massive numbers!
Please forward this email alert to everyone you know in
Central Texas.
Attend T-DAY Monday!
THIS IS THE BIG ONE.
After 3 long years, T-Day is the final CAMPO public
hearing
on double tax tolls.
TOGETHER,
WE'LL MAKE HISTORY.
The most important public hearing of your lifetime.
You'll be proud to tell
others you were there.
Help Stop the Double Tax
This Monday,
Sept. 10th, 6pm
at the State Capitol!
Be there or pay and pay and pay.
(underground extension auditorium)
Like the Boston Tea Party,
Austin Toll Party folks are well known to "give 'em hell
at the microphones". Come Monday, take a stand for yourself and I promise,
your heart will race and you'll feel a special pride to be there standing
your ground for your family.
T-Day stands for
Tolls, Taxes & ; let's
"Tar an! d Feathe r
those Crooks"!
Since 2004, our show of force has proven to push back the
corrupt politicos who benefit from tolling
our freeways.
They fear the voters wrath - if enough of us are there
watching them.
Come and help us
babysit the crooks
on Monday. I'll be a lot more fun than anything that's on
TV.
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Hell, send the crooks another email! Tell all 19 CAMPO
board members to "Do NOT spend $700 Million of our tax dollars for
monopolistic tolls on our freeways or I will work to remove you in your next
election."
This ONE email address goes out
to all 19 Board members! (please include a subject
heading, your name, address so they know you're a real person):
campo at austintollparty.com
Quick Links
a.. Calculate what YOUR Family will have to pay to drive
freeways in Austin!
b..
c.. Our Accomplishments - why your help really helps!
The Chair of CAMPO, Senator Kirk Watson, is pushing
a new tax scheme that shifts our freeways to tollways. The Watson TxDOT toll
plan also diverts $700 million tax dollars - intended for free roads - into
toll roads. It is important to note that freeways have NEVER been shifted to
tollways in the history of our country.
Conventional toll roads across the country have
always been built on new land with investor dollars (after the public
expressways had been built) so drivers have a choice between the public
highway or the toll road. They are taking what is ours to charge us forever,
as the tolls will never be removed even after the road has been paid for 100
times over. Don't let it happen, attend T-Day Monday.
(Demand Real Solutions - See Them Below)
FREEWAY TOLLER TRICKS AND LIES
Safe from the voters wrath, tollers selected the
retiring Austin council member Betty Dunkerley to run interference, and
confuse some of our greener folks who sent emails (via
campo at austintollparty.com), with a tricky reply that said:
"We are considering tolls on new capacity not
old..."
THE FACT IS, the Austin toll plan creates a monopoly
by tolling public highways like 183, 71, 290 and MoPAC. Tollers seek to use
our tax dollars (the $700 million) and the right of way we've paid for
(Billions of dollars worth intended for our freeways/public highways) - to
shift our freeway system into an unaccountable tax system. Period. This is a
Double Tax. These are roads that were always intended to be freeways.
Tollers use our money, they use our right of way to charge us again - so
special interest pals can profit off our families. There should be no free
land and free roads given to toll road interests under the guise of
providing maintenance for a bureaucratic double tax.
DID YOUR ACTION EMAIL "BOUNCE" ?
Since last week, we sent about 1,000 emails via the
campo at austintollparty.com email address. That one alias email address goes
to 19 board members. 2 of the board members blocked our emails (CAMPO board
members RR Mayor Nyle Maxwell and WilCo Commish Cynthia Long) and many
people thought the emails they sent would not be counted. YES, despite the
two board members blocking our emails, each of our messages were accepted
and recorded by the CAMPO office. Thanks!
Which one is the smarter road?
The $100 MILLION FREEWAY/PARKWAY
or
the $411 MILLION TOLLWAY?
ATTEND T-DAY AND SAY "NO WAY!"
FACT: TOLL ROADS COST MORE THAN FREE ROADS. For
example, fix290.org created a non-tolled parkway that would move just as
many cars as TxDOT's double decker toll road at the Oak Hill convergence of
U.S. 290 and Texas 71 (SW Austin). The smarter non-tolled parkway costs less
than $100 million. TxDOT's tollway costs $411 million (since it needs toll
equipment and a bigger foot print to separate the tolled freeway lanes from
the frontage roads with stop lights). The tollway allows politicos to tax
drive rs again without calling it a tax. And, if you've tried to drive free
near the new tollways in North Austin, you know exactly how they force
drivers onto the tollways.
AND GET THIS: TxDOT has trotted out a "Parkway
Option 4"...BUT, "Parkway Option 4" is NOT a parkway - and it IS tolled.
Tollers would call a dog a cat, if it meant they
could make money off us!
BREAKING NEWS:
TxDOT ignores a
CAMPO order to study
the non-tolled parkway!
A MUST READ - CLICK HERE.
FACT: TOLLS TAKE LONGER TO BUILD THAN FREE ROADS.
They say toll roads are faster, but the fact is, tolls take 2 years longer
to build. A 2 year Environmental Study must be performed, since the alre ady
approved freeway plans are trashed, under this toll scheme. Building the
already planned freeways is 2 years faster.
WHY ARE OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS IGNORING THE
OVERWHELMING PUBLIC OPPOSITION? Gred. Special interest contributors
including the Chamber of Commerce (Take On Traffic) which is lead by bankers
who'll profit off the debt created by freew ay tolls - are pushing politicos
to ignore the public. The Chamber has been pushing this double tax fior 3
years and it has yet to poll it's members!
As part of the Chamber board, The Austin American
Statesman, which has endorsed the double tax toll plan since 2004, uses it's
bully pulpit with editorials in support of the freeway plan - claiming it
is our only choice.
THAT IS FALSE AS WELL!...read on....
SHOW UP ON T-DAY
AND DEMAND THE REAL SOLUTIONS!
Smarter options, other than shifting our Austin
freeways to tollways, do exist.
In the short term, the $700 million tax dollars
shouldn't be spent on toll roads, but on cost efficient non-toll solutions
such as:
· Variable speed limits
· Ramp metering
· HOV lanes without tolls
· Reversible/barriered lanes for peak periods
· Non tolled Parkways (like fix290.org)
· Pass through financing
· More arterial lane miles
· Better incident management and
· Advance computerized control of traffic signals.
In the long term we must index the gas tax. The
Texas Transportation Institute report states that more tolls are simply NOT
needed - that indexing the gas tax and using the revenue to pay off bonds
allows freeways to be built right now.
Once placed, the freeway tolls will NEVER be removed
from our public highways. In contrast, the Ledge has the opportunity to
index the gas tax eve ry two years!
Print out this email and bring it to T-Day,
as a guide, and show it to others.
Join us, ATTEND T-DAY on
Monday at 6pm at the Capitol
and say "NO Freeway Tolls!"
...or pay and pay and pay.
Sal Costello
Founder of People for Efficient Transportation PAC
Austin Toll Party
DAILY NEWS HERE.
Please forward this email to everyone you know in
Central Texas.
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a not-for-profit grassroots crosspartison political action committee
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