I had to look it up, since it'd been several years since I drove past the BIG FUCKING SIGNS that tell you how much the toll is, indicate that you only get a dis

I had to look it up, since it'd been several years since I drove past the BIG FUCKING SIGNS that tell you how much the toll is, indicate that you only get a discount if you're carpooling, and that you need the transponder for that discount. Have you actually been through the toll plaza I referenced? In addition to the sign (that is posted before the last exit before the toll plaza, so you can bail if you don't have the cash), there's also a digital display at the cash booths, to indicate how much it costs. If the intent was to get us paying without realizing, they'd add additional incentives (like discounts) to getting the transponder than the fact that its simply (and obviously) faster. You're constructing this straw man where the price at the register is murky and ill-defined, and if only we could remove the smoke screen, people would see how much money they're losing to taxes. But the reality is that anti-tax folks are the ones making it difficult to understand the price at the register, as it pertains to income taxes. There's quite the conversation to be had about the murkiness of appropriations, certainly. But adding friction to the tax return process doesn't make me want to call my congressman about where my taxes are going, but instead to ask why a senator in Wyoming or Texas is so excited to bend over backwards to protect the business interests of a company based in Mountain View, California, at the expense of all of their constituents?!