Why are roads in America not free?

I only see them up north

they don't maintain jack shit with that money

Because some people here think it's outrageous that you need to pay taxes to have a functional first world society.

also depending on which province you are in you pay 10-35 cents per liter of provincial tax of which a significant portion is dedicated to road maintenance

Doubt they're taxing much if I'm paying $.90 a liter. That probably explains why the roads suck dick here, That or they spend my tax money on painting fucking rainbow crosswalks instead.

opt into taxes? lol are you dumb. nobody would pay. what we need is for people to start paying attention to their local elections and voting good politicians into office.

lol in NJ atleast the roads are terrible and parts of the parkway and turnpike are absolute shit

One engine can't possibly pull all of that

because Americans are stupid.

FACT: tolls are retarded and only Republicans are stupid enough to support them

had a toll road between me and the next biggest city, only cost a total of 1.25 to drive on the whole thing. road was always well maintained, and cops never sat on it so you could go however fast you wanted. used to be my favorite place to test out my cars.

now the government bought the road. it's shit now, and cops sit all along it.

i'm ok with paying tolls if it means i get option A

Not all states have toll roads in the US, those that do use them to pay for maintenance of the road and as a disincentive for drivers to use them, reducing traffic. In theory, for more expensive parts of roads (e.g. large bridges), tolls also shift the cost of their maintenance from taxpayers as a whole to the people that actually use them.

Comes out of general taxes federally (not separately) and states will add taxes for the roads to gasoline (petrol) purchases.

Part of the problem is that a lot of the turnpike and parkway stay so busy that they're hard to patch without causing tons of traffic. Also, NJ isn't liable for pothole damage on state roads until it gets reported to them formally, so they ignore all unreported potholes and road issues and only act on them once the letter of the law requires it.