Hell NO.
The gas tax is a slush fund. It will never end. They'll just add toll roads to the mix as another way to harvest dollars from the host organisms.
Idiocy.
They will erect the tolls and NEVER get rid of the gas tax, and we’ll be stuck with BOTH revenue confiscation schemes by the government.
RULE OF LIFE NO. 1: Government NEVER - EVER limits itself or reduces what it confiscates.
Ridiculous. Gas tax is the fairest way to collect tax if you are going to tax by useage. The more you drive the more you pay.
Toll roads. Limited access points. Only those driving on those roads would pay.
What is wrong with not putting gas tax monies in the general fund and wasting it on pork? Why not build and repair roads with road tax monies?
It might work of you at the same time privatized the stretch of road in question. That’ll never happen.
Also most roads have hundreds and thousands of on grade entrances. How do you practically handle that? Sensors at the end of every driveway?
Step 1 - Require automakers to install GPS tracking systems on all new vehicles.
Step 2 - Pass a law requiring all subsequent data to be turned over to the Federal Government to charge a per-mile tax.
Step 3 - Give access to that data to political hacks like Lois Lerner so that they can use the media to ream the next GOP Presidential Hopeful whose car just happens to turn up in the parking lot of a local brothel.
This makes no sense. Those who use the roads most use the most gas.
only the little people will pay that.
the important bureacrats will have no tracking or auto expempt tracking meaning they will never pay. (see vips who are never given a red light ticket)
During WWII all the politicians demanded an exemption card for gas rationing.
Equip every vehicle with a GPS tracking device that uploads its data whenever it passes by prepositioned checkpoints. Then a monthly statement can be sent to the vehicle owner for their share of road maintenance, and what type of road they used.
The Government having a way to track the whereabouts of every vehicle in the country. What could possibly go wrong...
It is the 'adjustment' that worries me.
What a jerk thing to think. EVERYONE IN AMERICA USES THE ROAD. Some don’t drive but buy goods that the road has to be used for them to get it. WHERE DO WE GET THESE FOOLS, I’LL NEVER UNDERSTAND.
What universe does Barone live in? Since when have gas taxes been used to construct or repair roads?
The gas tax is 18.4 cents a gallon. My car gets about 30 MPG, so the tax works out to .61 cents per mile, or 163 miles for each dollar of tax.
I live in New Jersey. The New Jersey Turnpike is supported by tolls. To drive from the Delaware Memorial Bridge to Exit 11 (my exit) costs me $7.25 for 90.6 miles, with works out to 8 cents per mile.
So the Turnpike Toll costs me 13.1 times as much as the gas tax!
I have no problem with usage fees instead of gas taxes... tomato/tomahto... But I got a big problem with a 1310% tax increase. And I suspect the usage fees are going to be a lot closer to the NJ Turnpike Tolls than are to the Gas Tax.
Why not just build roads to last?
Raped by taxes already, it sucks on the highway to have to slow down, stop, queue up, crawl through a pay station to throw more money at a government employee.
Some people should stick to reviewing new Rap releases.
GRRRRRRRRRRR!
For later.
Tolls haven’t gone over well in GA so far.
Make them mandatory and you’d have a full scale revolution the next day.