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The board members responsible for imposing tolls on New York state motorists will never have to pay a toll in their lifetime. The New York Daily News reports that Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board members each get special E-ZPass transponders that provide toll-free driving and do not expire, even when the individuals leave their position on the board. Tolls in New York City currently range up to $10 for a one-way trip across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
MTA Chairman Peter S. Kalikow has eight of these transponders that he can use on up to eight of his favorite cars, ensuring he will never have to pay that $10. Among the perfectly restored classics in his collection is a councours-winning 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder. Another 1961 Spyder in equally fine condition sold at auction earlier this month for $10.9 million, the most ever paid for a used car.
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5/28/2008
New York: Tolling Board Drives Toll Free for Life
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I wonder if our local Double Tax Troll Looters got the same deal to make it happen.
Kind of makes you wonder now doesn't it.
If these politicians will do anything to get elected why don't we the people do whatever it takes to make sure that doesn't happen, especially if we know they are special interest driven cows anyways. I know it is unrelated to the toll roads but someone I know is a DPS trooper and they told me that Rick Perry is widely known as a homosexual. If this information was more widely released don't you think that would hurt his reelection bid? ala a Gov. McGreevey? Let me know what you think.
Of course they do. Elected officials don't have to pay tolls while in office. That's documented in the Cintra/zachary contracts.
Only one name for these people:
Thieves
Bill Gates is a fan and owner of fancy cars. He gave the world Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, and much more. (and many things with bugs but whatever...) He deserves his wealth. The MTA Chairman does not deserve to have even drive a yugo. It's disgusting that he doesn't have to pay tolls, but even worse, how the hell did the chairman come across enough money to afford a 10 million dollar car? The city, state, or whatever doesn't pay 5 million dollar salaries directly. This a-hole must have embezzled the toll revenue that should have been spent on construction. He should be sent to Gitmo.
Looks like he got his fortune from being president of his family's real estate company.
DEVELOPERS ARE EVIL snakes.
The greed they have causes them to find ways to have our tax dollars get roads (free roads and toll roads) to their cheap land.
Their (used loosely) land is cheap only because eminent domain is used to forcibly take it without compensating the rightful owner for the land's true value.
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