No crying now that tolls are doubled

During the next few weeks, newspaper editors and talk show hosts will be inundated with protests for having to pay the new high toll/tax to use Illinois’ highways. I say too bad!

These same complainers have had many opportunities to do something about this unfair toll/tax, but could not find the time to get off their fat behinds and do something. Now they’re crying.

Arrogant tollway director Kristi Lafleur has said that she is not worried; ultimately drivers who try alternate routes will come back. Time will tell. For me I’m doing the alternate route and leaving the paying of this unfair toll/tax to the Wall Street 1 percent. I could not afford to use these roads even when they were half the price.

I have heard that Taxpayers United of America is the only known group today working aggressively toward getting rid of the Illinois Tollway Authority, ending this unfair toll/tax and 60 years of corruption. Remember that in the 1950s when Illinois state legislators were selling us on a tollway system they promised that the toll authority would be gone by now and that the highways would be toll free?

I’m contacting the Taxpayers United to see how I can help.

Russell Johnson

Sugar Grove