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SMN: Toll Roads Are Mostly A Private Profit Scam

Some More News

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News, Comedy, Talk Radio, Society & Culture

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Hi. Here's everything you didn't know you needed to know about toll roads – where the money goes, how it's an inefficient way to fund infrastructure, and how private companies take advantage of sweet government contracts to take your money. Go to https://ground.news/SMN to stay fully informed . Subscribe through our link for as little as $1 a month or get 30% off unlimited access this month only. Right now, Nuts.com is offering new customers a free gift with purchase and free shipping on orders of $29 or more at https://Nuts.com/morenews.  Give your business the gift of https://stamps.com so your mailing and shipping is covered this holiday season. Sign up with promo code MORENEWS for a special offer that includes a 4-week trial, plus free postage, and a digital scale. No long-term commitments or contracts. Just go to https://stamps.com, click the microp hone at the top of the page, and enter code MORENEWS. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdG7RE2YiWwIx44F191hyyYMbpFbH8f2ycL93CZLJS8/edit?usp=sharing  Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews   SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh  Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here-- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA   Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenews  

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0:00.0

Hey there news folks, are you ready for your slop? Your news folks slop, which is, it's news in this analogy. The slop is news.

0:10.0

Also, slop. You know what? The point is, neither is technically edible, but you can still eat them.

0:17.0

You can butt-chug Newsweek. I won't stop you. Heck, I'll hold the funnel and host a funeral.

0:22.8

And speaking of putting stuff in your butts,

0:24.9

the holidays are coming up, or rather, are already here.

0:28.8

Perhaps you've recently traveled via automobile and or aerial plane to eat green bean casseriol, another type of slop, and break

0:36.5

wishbone after wishbone after wishbone after wishbone after wishbone after wishbone.

0:41.9

So many wishbones shattered under your holiday boots.

0:45.2

Togetherness, travel, butt stuff, etc. The point here is that you may have even driven a great distance,

0:52.8

and during that journey, we're forced to stop at a little booth

0:56.1

where a robot or disheartened human with a soul of a robot

0:59.0

asked for money so you can keep driving.

1:01.5

It's something we accept as a general irritation of existing in a functioning society.

1:06.0

You gotta pay a toll or two, the same way parking costs money and your boss will steal and sell your blood.

1:12.0

That's just life. Hey, whoa, actually wait, actually,

1:17.0

counterpoint. point.

1:28.0

Toll roads are pretty darn bad. Interesting.

1:32.0

Don't we lefty sims love taxes?

1:35.0

Perhaps I'm not like other girls.

1:37.0

Or perhaps the more I talk, the less you'll like toll roads, a thing you already don't like.

1:42.0

Perhaps you've noticed more of them lately though. That's weird. Of course, toll roads are far from a new concept. Records of collecting tolls date all the way back to the ancient world between the seventh and third centuries

1:54.1

b c. It's a pretty basic idea. Collect a small fee from travelers to cover the cost of

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