Now there's a concept - let private outfits foot the bill for building roads and get payback with tolls from those who use them - rather than soak every poor sucker, most of whom will never use the roads - or rarely.
It's a "Consumption Tax" like the FAIR TAX.
Use it=pay for it
Don't use it = don't pay for it.
What a strange concept in this socialist country
You are WRONG - They get the tax money to build the road and charge confiscatory rates to move freight on the roads. It raises prices on everything - This slows the economy.
Any “poor sucker” who buys gasoline, diesel, or any other motor fuel already automatically pays a fuel tax that at least theoretically goes toward the construction and maintenance of highways and other roads. Motor vehicles generally do use those roads as rarely as they buy gasoline and thereby pay fuel taxes. (Most legislatures frequently pilfer the road maintenance fund for non-road spending and then complain of a lack of money to construct and maintain roads.) Perhaps “every poor sucker” nowadays only buys gasoline for non-road motors like lawn mowers, but in my experience, an overwhelming majority of gasoline purchases historically went toward on-road motor vehicle fuels.