Better yet, just raise the gas tax another $0.25 per gallon and we’re there. Then double or triple your train tickets.
How many will keep driving, Willie? I’d say at least 99% of them. How many will keep riding the train when the costs are tripled? I’d say at most half of them.
Then what do you need to do to recoup the missing revenue, Willie?
Better yet, just raise the gas tax another $0.25 per gallon and we’re there.
That's YOUR proposal, not mine.
I don't believe that FedGov should be collecting any kind of Sales Tax whatsoever.
I'm not convinced that it gets allocated back fairly to the states from which it is collected.
It's much better to abolish the Federal gas tax and let the individual states collect it ALL for the maintenance of local roads where it is impractical to collect tolls. Then limited access highways would not recieve any gas tax support whatsoever. Those would be the ones that would be funded by tolls.
Very simple, straightforward and easy to understand.
It makes it very difficult for the legislative weasels to play a shell game with the funding.