 | |
Illinois Tolls Double 1/1/05
Pontiac Discussion of Pontiac Automobiles (alt.autos.pontiac)
 |
| | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | Display Modes |
#11
 
| |||
| |||
|
Re: Illinois Tolls Double 1/1/05 -
12-31-2004
, 01:14 AM
|
You can't possibly think of anything you have that tourism paid for. Your scope of understanding economics doesn't go beyond your own bank account apparently. Let me clue you in. Take Milwaukee for an instance. Harley Davidson motorcycles are made there. Do you really think that only those directly involved with the company ever had anything they own paid for by a biker? If a machinist at HD likes fried chicken, and he spends some of his paycheck on fried chicken, now the folks that work at the KFC are seeing some of that money that came from someone buying a motorcycle. And the person who services their HVAC system, and the person who plows out the lot there at KFC etc. The "someones" that buy the motorcycles are flowing their money in from all over the country and world. Without exports, you don't get outside money flowing in. Without outside money flowing in, you are limited to what a community can do for each other locally, with what resources are at hand locally. In Hawaii that would mean a lot of folks wearing grass clothing and sucking on pineapples. I'll say it again. If you take away the money Uncle Sam and tourists pump into Hawaii, you have precious little left to buy cars with to use on those roads. So think about that the next time you look at what you own. |
was (a lot) prior to 9/11.
IF you'd like me to come visit again, bringing my dollars
top spend on every service imaginable, I'd like to be
treated like a guest. Not like someone who's filling up
your roads.
And the word is - treated "fair"; not fare.
Ken
#12
| |||
| |||
|
|
I understand econ, and that our "export" is tourism, in and of the fact that people from elsewhere pay to "be" here. I stated that tourists should pump more money into my state with a toll road system. Local politicians have that platform. But without regard to that, I am curious about this Uncle Sam money you say we get, because I have not seen or heard of it. Last I checked, we were a very poor state. GW (HNY, BTW) Are you totally blind or only partially blind? |
Tourism and the US Military are the backbone of the Hawaiian economy.
#13
| |||
| |||
|
| We often travel a couple of toll roads in Northern Ill. at vacation time. I guess in the future, we will be taking a more scenic route. H |
#14
| |||
| |||
|
|
So you're willing to waste much more time, gas(money) on traveling across back roads, than paying an extra 50 cents per toll? That's brilliant |
A better idea would be to avoid altogether those
states/areas that take advantage of unsupecting guests.
Here's an offer for you. Come on up and visit.
Spend your money for hotels, fuel, clothing, souvenirs,
repairs, all the things that visitors buy.
And be sure to remember - you're a visitor, a guest, so
you get special welcome attention. You pay double.
Ken
#15
| |||
| |||
|
|
So you're willing to waste much more time, gas(money) on traveling across back roads, than paying an extra 50 cents per toll? That's brilliant |
My wife hates interstate highways and I love them, so we usually compromise
by mixing it up a little. I'll just compromise a little more, for
principle's sake.
H
Quote:
|
"Hairy" <hairy (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:33g7r0F3v7mkjU1 (AT) individual (DOT) net... We often travel a couple of toll roads in Northern Ill. at vacation time. I guess in the future, we will be taking a more scenic route. H |
#16
| |||
| |||
|
|
« Previous Thread
|
Next Thread »
| Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
| Display Modes | |
Linear Mode
| |
Powered by vBulletin Version 3.5.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.