In Texas, Toll Collection Outsourced To Payday Lender

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WASHINGTON -- If you want to set up an account to use the new toll road in El Paso, Texas, you may have to first stop by a payday lender.

The El Paso Times reports that the Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority will be working with the payday lender ACE Cash Express to help collect tolls for the César Chávez Border Highway toll road, which is expected to open Jan. 8.

While people who want to set up an account to use the road or pay off their toll charges can do so by phone, mail or online, the only places to do so in person in El Paso are at ACE stores. Those individuals who make the transaction at the payday lender "will be charged a $3 fee to set up the account and a $2 convenience service fee to replenish a non-credit card," the paper notes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/02/texas-payday-lender_n_4531904.html

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1. Privatization and Cronyism. What ever happened to road and highways owned by the Taxpayers; what

has happened to Texas? Answer: Republicanism; voting against your own self interest.