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To: Paradox

“Roadway users should be charged by the Pound-Mile.”

That seems hardly equitable, since citizens who do not own a vehicle benefit from highways almost as much as those who drive...


16 posted on 12/24/2014 7:40:17 AM PST by babygene
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To: babygene
That seems hardly equitable, since citizens who do not own a vehicle benefit from highways almost as much as those who drive...

Yes, and those costs would be passed to them in some other way. Government vehicles? Through fees and other taxes. Businesses? Through the price of goods and services.

28 posted on 12/24/2014 10:41:48 AM PST by Paradox (and now here we are....)
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To: babygene
That seems hardly equitable, since citizens who do not own a vehicle.....

Like, say, lots of New Yorkers, who cannot imagine a road toll or gas tax so high that you shouldn't pay it.

People like, say, MSM and PBS people.... People like Woody Allen and other perverts.

31 posted on 12/25/2014 12:32:06 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for Lthe termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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