Highly regarded transportation expert Robert Poole of Reason Foundation recounted the findings of this startling study in congressional testimony this summer.

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Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation agrees, and adds that he underestimated two other tollway hurdles: The public feels it's already paid for roads with gas taxes and often resents the idea of the rich getting a faster ride.

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Recent research from the Reason Foundation finds the cost of all-electronic toll collection is just 5% of the revenue generated, compared with the 20% to 30% inherent in 20th-century cash-toll collection.

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Julian Morris is vice president of research and Adam Peshek is a research associate at Reason Foundation ( www.reason.org).

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The nation's ability to direct most of its college-trained women into the single career of teaching was the foundation upon which the national public school system was built and a major reason American tax rates were kept low.

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The Ipsos Mori poll, for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, was rubbished by the Church, with Reverend Giles Fraser, former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's, saying it was not fair to trump people's "self-identification" as Christians.

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