> I spoke to Schweitzer, and she made it clear that she doesn't buy the congestion-pricing-hurts-the-poor scenario. In her view, congestion
> pricing is a way to ration a resource often in short supply -- space on the road. She likes it because those who use it pay for it, and that
> puts a direct cost on driving.
This pay-to-play scheme is one slippery step away from highway privatization (http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01/highwaymen_states.html).
Hopefully every last person reading this would oppose the allocation of any public service according to the ability to pay on principle.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."