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Tolls another tool in the toolbox - an inapt cliche
Posted on Fri, 2007-05-25 16:27
US Rep John J Duncan top Republican on the House highways subcommittee of said in a press statement today toll roads "have their place in the national toolbox of financing alternatives."
Have any of the people who so glibly use this toolbox cliche ever handled real tools or had reason to assemble them in a toolbox? The suggestion that tolls or concessions are "just another financing tool" doesn't work as metaphor.
Have any of the people who so glibly use this toolbox cliche ever handled real tools or had reason to assemble them in a toolbox? The suggestion that tolls or concessions are "just another financing tool" doesn't work as metaphor.
