A Fair Toll

Trade, is the voluntary, often asymmetric, exchange of goods, services, or money. Trade exists for man due to specialization and division of labuor. The origin of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and services. Modern traders use a medium of exchange, i.e. money, which makes buying and selling simplified.

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Trading is so common and essential in our daily lives, that some consider it human’s basic rights. Therefore, it is not surprising that laws are designed to protect fair competition and free flow of truthful information in the marketplace.

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Buy, is to acquire the possession of, or the right to, a commodity or services, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent in money ; Sell, is to transfer goods to, or service for another in exchange of money.

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A buy-sell transaction should be on goodwill basis, voluntary, fair and truthful. Any attempt otherwise are to be considered breaching the essence of trading, a fraud, an act of crime.

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Almost anything can be trade, literary anything under the sun, even above it.

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Yet, everyday we see the oppression that was taking place under the sun : unfair trade !

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A toll road supposed to be a road built for drivers to have a safe and uninterrupted access. In other word, drivers not only pay for the access of the road, but also the convenience and safety of the access.  NOT a person with a sane mind would pay for an inconvenience and dangerous route !

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I believe most Malaysian would agree with me that paying to be jammed is ridiculous.  But it is nothing new : motorist jammed-queue to pay the toll, then to be jammed stuck after paying toll. This is obviously not fair for the motorist ( consumer, a.k.a. the rakyat ), to pay for something they didn’t get ( the convenience and safe access ) !

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Since nothing is being done ( successfully ) to ease the traffic, the toll operators should have not collecting any payment for using the jammed highways ! To be fair, tolls should only be collected during eased traffic ( when the toll operatiors able to deliver their service/product ).

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Otherwise, our toll operators are nothing more than a law-protected highwayman. And our government who allows this unfairness to happen, is nothing more than BIG BAD WOLF themselves.

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Raykat Didahulukan, Pencapaian Diutamakan !