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To: pepsi_junkie

If this were to replace state and federal gas taxes, fine as this would then require non-gas or diesel cars to pay their fair share of road costs. And, how about requirement that all of these mileage taxes go solely to building and maintenance of roads used by those cars, thus no walkways, no bikeways, not other diversions.


73 posted on 03/27/2021 10:38:31 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: Reno89519
And, how about requirement that all of these mileage taxes go solely to building and maintenance of roads

That's what they did with tolls the NJ Turnpike and Garden State expressway in New Jersey. They were chartered to use tolls to pay for the construction and then the tolls would go away. They never did, for decades they just kept adding to the roads, spurs that went nowhere, just to keep that toll money coming in. Now they don't even bother with that. Those temporary tolls are damned permanent.

And so too will any new tax be.

111 posted on 03/27/2021 4:08:00 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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