[Alberta's Child]

I work in transportation infrastructure professionally and I think you have it backwards. I’m not a fan of toll roads but I do recognize that they are the closest thing we have to a “user pays” type of system where the costs of building and maintaining a road are allocated efficiently to the users.

The problem with a “common tax base” arrangement is that a highway system inevitably takes on all the worst characteristics of an all-you-can-eat buffet. The quality of the food is poor and the customers consume too much of it because the pricing structure and system of paying for the meal gives every incentive to the customers to eat as much as they can.

[Jonty30]

Roads should not be user pay, imo. Roads, police, fire, sewers, should not be user pay. It should not be funded by the federal government, but it should be generally funded.

[Jonty30]

Roads should not be user pay, imo. Roads, police, fire, sewers, should not be user pay. It should not be funded by the federal government, but it should be generally funded.

User pay means that some can’t use roads. How do they work if they can’t use roads? Are you prepared to support them for life, because they can’t afford to work?