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Charles Summers's avatar

I lived near Tacoma/Seattle for 70 years. The pay per mile thing started maybe 20 years ago and it’s implementation is now imminent for Washington State. It started with offering a slight rate reduction if you would attach a transponder to your vehicle and also let you skip the toll booths at the bottleneck entrance to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Then it expanded to the floating bridges and then to allow paid access to commuter lanes during peak hours on the freeways. Washington hates drivers and intentionally creates massive congestion and bottlenecks by never, and I mean never, completing road construction projects in the heaviest traffic areas. There’s a 20+ year unfinished project on I-5 through the middle of Tacoma. They create congestion and then collect a ransom for bypassing the problem they created. Now they are developing a GPS based system for tracking and charging drivers the minute they pull out of their driveways using variable rates based on the road choice and time of day.

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Matt Schweder's avatar

Lex Greene obviously doesn’t follow Emerald Robinson or know anything about the easily rigged voting machines, the millions of fraudulent mail in ballots or that the last election was stolen. He humorously believes the outcome of the Nov 5 election and the outcome of this country is in OUR hands in how we vote. Bless his little heart.

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