Everything's better if someone else pays for it.
You'd think the last few days of DOGE exposure of how taxpayers have been getting ripped off for decades so a privileged few can benefit would open one's eyes.
Exactly the opposite. Pay for use is the essence of individuals paying for the services and infrastructure they use.
I also would 100% support eliminating the gas tax and charging for each and every mile everyone uses. Only at the state level the fed has no charter or enumerated powers to be building roads, it’s not in the constitution. Also base the rate of the per mile charge on the mathematical formula of tire pressure PSI per square foot since it’s proven road wear goes up at the quad power of weight it’s 16 times higher for double the psi weight. Trucks should pay way more per mile vs small cars like sedans s one truck does 16,000 times the wear rate of a sedan per mile.
Pay for use is the only real equitable way to finance use. Right now the average person drives 14500 miles per year and has a fleet avg 25 mpg. That’s 580 gallons per year the federal gas tax is 18 cents per gallon that works out to just over $108 per year in federal tax revenue from gas taxes per individual if you think $108 to the federal government even remotely covers the infrastructure cost wear and tear and maintenance of any road system your delusional. most of the highway funds the feds give out comes from the general tax pool which means the higher income tax paying people are paying for all the roads as the higher income people pay a disproportionately large portion of the federal government’s revenue. This is the essence of progressive taxation. The bottom half of income doesn’t pay next taxes famously the 47% it’s higher now. So when daddy fed gives motorway mmoney it’s from the top half while the bottom half drives for free. $108 is essentially free it won’t cover a single foot of roadway costs in a year. Motorways are $2-11 MILLION per mile that’s $378 to $2000+ PER FOOT. Yeah your gas tax doesn’t even cover a single foot of road in a year. Oh but the state gas taxes. “8.95 cents per gallon in Alaska to 68.1 cents per gallon in California as of January 2024”
So $53-394 per year, here again on average not even a foot of roadway. So eliminate the gas tax and tax by actual usage so everyone had a skin in the game. It is by definition equality. Drive more ,use more, pay more.