In what can only be classified as disappointing but not surprising news, Gov. Tom Wolf and his allies are once again looking for new and creative ways to wring money out of people just trying to live their daily lives.

Wolf is looking to slap tolls on bridges on several major highways through Pennsylvania as a means of trying to make money to repair and/or replace dilapidated infrastructure.

Thankfully, there are those who are looking to put a stop to this nonsense, like state Sen. Jake Corman, R-Bellefonte, who is also a candidate to replace the term-limited Wolf as governor.

Earlier this week, Corman visited the Interstate 83 South Bridge in the Harrisburg region, one of nine that are being targeted for tolling, as part of his campaign. While there, Corman made it clear tolls aren’t the answer to the funding problem and, worse, they could cause even more problems.

“Gov. Tom Wolf and his money-hungry administration are trying to impose an admission charge on everyday life as families and businesses continue to recover from his pandemic lockdowns,” Corman said. “I’m here to stop them.”

Pennsylvania taxpayers are already paying $1.25 billion to upgrade the I-83 Capital Beltway in and around Harrisburg. Pennsylvania taxpayers are already paying on one of the highest gas taxes in the nation.

Apparently, that’s not enough for Wolf and his tax-and-spend liberal allies.

“New tolls don’t address the underlying problem that motor fuels taxes aren’t meeting our transportation maintenance needs,” Corman said. “We need a new formula for funding our roads and bridges, not another piece of duct tape on a broken system.”

One major problem is that tolling often leads to people taking detours around the tolls through areas not equipped to handle large volumes of traffic. How many people do you know that travel the Pennsylvania Turnpike with any regularity? So, not only do you have people avoiding tolling, you have the added headache of places that were never designed for it being overrun with traffic.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Cumberland County and six other communities in the West Shore area of Harrisburg have filed a suit in Commonwealth Court seeking injunctions to stop the tolling plan on the I-83 South Bridge. They cite the economic burden of tolls and increased traffic congestion that would impact public safety and infrastructure in their effort to block the bridge tolling plan.

“Tolling doesn’t solve the transportation problem,” Corman said. “It merely pits one community against another, while failing to address the underlying problem of declining revenues.”

One question you may have is why, if we’re already paying such a high liquid fuels tax, do we need more money to fix roads. One reason is because that tax money is being spent in a way that it was never intended to be.

Currently, $650 million from the liquid motor fuels licensing fund is diverted to fund the state police. While the state police is definitely needed, funding it shouldn’t come at the expense of maintaining infrastructure.

Another issue Corman highlighted was finding a way to make those who don’t use liquid fuels as much as the rest of us — drivers of hybrids and electric vehicles — to contribute to the upkeep of roads and bridges they use.

“The Wolf administration and its political allies on the tax-and-spend left simply haven’t met a tax or a toll they don’t want to pass,” Corman said. “At least when it comes to tolls, I intend to make these bridges ‘no passing’ zones.”

This proposal by Wolf is a one-way street to making things worse. We hope the legislature will park his idea permanently.