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🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | Joining us now is Senator Frank Nicely. |
0:08.1 | He's a state senator here in Tennessee. |
0:10.8 | I've talked to him before about his efforts to try to establish a state bank to try to |
0:15.0 | educate people about CBDC, and we'll talk to him about that coming up. |
0:18.9 | But there's something else that is very important as well. |
0:25.0 | Senator Nicely is, I think, number two on the Transportation Committee. Correct me about that, |
0:31.3 | Senator Nicely, but there's a proposal by the governor to put toll roads in Tennessee. Tennessee is one of only 14 states |
0:40.5 | that doesn't have toll roads. That's one of the reasons I loved Tennessee. I don't want to see |
0:45.6 | that change. So I want to talk to the senator about why this is happening now. Who's going to |
0:49.6 | benefit from this? What happens with these toll roads? I've seen it done in Texas, and I was not happy with |
0:56.2 | what I saw in Texas. So thank you for joining us, Senator Nicely. Well, thank you, David. It's always |
1:02.0 | pleasure. I'm like you. I just naturally hate toll roads. Yeah. So give you a little history. |
1:08.3 | The Cherokee Indians had a toll road between Kingston and Nashville 200 years ago. |
1:12.6 | Really? |
1:13.5 | They called it a turn pike and then have a pole across a pike across the road. |
1:19.0 | And then when you paid your toll, they would turn the pike and let you through it. |
1:21.7 | And then turn the pike back. |
1:23.4 | So we've had toll road 200 years ago in Tennessee. |
1:27.4 | I'm not sure how the Cherokee managed to do that. |
1:30.2 | But no, I don't like Toll Roads. |
1:32.9 | They're hard on poor people. |
1:34.7 | It's so inefficient. |
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