I was talking with a friend of mine who asked me a good question. This will seem somewhat rhetorical but... How many times do we have to pay for the Mass. Pike? Since the debt for the highway was payed off in 1983, (according to Pravda, er... the Boston Globe), why do we keep paying for the road over and over?

Of course we need the revenue the highway department tells us. (I mean the revenue, less the toll takers making beaucoup bucks).

Or is it that the Boston area needs to keep cranking up revenue from the western drivers in the state. Hardly seems fair, except of course to Boston and Beacon Hill.

Shouldn't the revenue for the state highway system be gained equally from all residents in the state of Massachusetts?

Any thoughts? Is my question to "negative" for Deval and friends?