Moreover, gasoline taxes are regressive ...
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Gas taxes are really a user fee. They are ONE way of ensuring that the actual users of a service pay for it, just like the users of UPS pay a price for uding that service. They are no more regressive than the single price a user of UPS pays. (Should we charge the rich man a higher price for, say, food, than the poor man?) If there are some people who need to use the roads even though they can’t pay for gas, the government can give then gasoline credit cards.
but electric cars pay zero