Obama's highway tolls take cash, time and privacy:

Obama's highway tolls take cash, time and privacy: Column:
"Tolls are plan B. But they'll also make the driving experience worse, and less private.
If states set up old-fashioned toll booths on the interstate, as a number already have for bridges and tunnels, you'll have to slow down to pay. (Which, ironically, will waste gas.)
Politicians will undoubtedly like it, though, because all those toll booth employees will be government employees who can probably be counted on to re-elect incumbents. 
Of course, this is the 21st century, so we'll let drivers who opt in use radio frequency chips or bar codes to whiz by sensors that withdraw money from your bank account.
But that's not really an improvement because it also means that the government will have a handy computerized record of where you go and when. 
It might not save time, either, as E-ZPass lanes clog up, too."