Editorial misses the mark on Garden State Parkway tolls

It was appalling to read your Opinion column in the Aug. 16 edition whereby you, in effect, support a "use" tax (re: Garden State Parkway tolls).

By extension, then, you must also support a use tax for each time you use the public library, or call the fire or police department, or for public schools.

The millions of motorists who use our state highways do not pay a use tax, while those motorists who live along the parkway are discriminated against by being forced to pay a tax for a service that other citizens get for free. (On the parkway you are taxed twice — once for the gasoline that is used and again by the tolls.)

Maybe we should start progressively adding a toll (tax) to all of our highways, which would be very easy to do with E-ZPass — also, with such a system a toll (tax) increase could be imposed quite easily.

Tolls are nothing more than expensive tourniquets on the traffic flow and should be removed for the good of the state’s commerce.

Raymond G. Neveil

Citizens Against Tolls

Manasquan