While this might appear that I am arguing against myself, it is not. It is just my attempt to be fair.

One of the disgraced former Governor of Illionois’ (Rod Blagojevich) successes was “Open Road” tolling in Northern Illinois. As long as you have the required transponder, your toll is taken without your even backing off the fuel pedal. Yes, toll booths are still required (not every traveler has a transponer), and numerous employees are still required to man them, but anyone with the transponder can bypass the tollbooths. However I am going to add that Illinois had to more then double tolls to pay for all of these wonderful “Open Road” toll facilities.

It is not like McDonnell is not going to raise revenue, he wants to raise his revenue by collecting tolls. This method of raising revenue has to be the least efficient because such a large percentage of the tolls collected are expended on the costs of collecting them.

If he pointed out that putting all those Virginia citizens to work manning the tollbooths was a good thing because of the high unemployment rate? Well I would be forced to admit he had a point, but I also would add in the same breath that he is in favor of the big government solution.