Everything costs money - you can either pay for it in taxes, or you can pay tolls - but you're going to pay.

You May Have To Say Goodbye To Your Toll-Free Highways (Click here to read more)

By Annie-Rose Strasser April 30, 2014 at 9:52 am Updated: April 30, 2014 at 10:49 am
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The term "freeway" may not make sense for much longer.
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To alleviate major budget woes, the Obama Administration wants to allow states to open up tolls on the interstate highway system, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx confirmed to the Washington Post on Tuesday. To that end, the administration has included a proposal to allow tolling in its transportation bill.
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"We believe that this is an area where the states have to make their own decisions," Foxx told the Post. "We want to open the aperture, if you will, to allow more states to choose to make broader use of tolling, to have that option available."
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If tolls actually opened on the interstates, it would reverse a decades-long precedent of keeping those highways free and open to the public. But Foxx says the administration is running out of other options.
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"Given the situation at the federal level with the uncertainty of funding the Highway Trust Fund," Foxx said in an interview earlier this week with the Metropolitan Planning Council, "we do believe that part of our responsibility is to help states and local project sponsors develop new options, new sources of revenue.