The AP has an article published in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette on Gov. Daniels trip to Crown Point to field questions on the proposed Toll Road sale. According to the article:
“Our country was based on the premise of no taxation without
representation, but I see the leasing of the Toll Road just like that,â€
Crown Point resident Helen Batusic told the governor.
Well, no. Not at all. Sure, you’ll be paying a tax because of this. If you’re driving the Toll Road frequently, you’ll be paying a lot of taxes, more and more as the 75 years progresses. But that will not be without representation — at least not for those of us alive and eligible to vote today. Our representatives in the 2006 General Assembly will have voted to lock in that 75 year tax. Maybe the coming generations that will also have to pay the tax can complain about taxation without representation. But not us. We can only complain about the former, not the latter. Good representation? Well, that’s an entirely separate question.
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