“So despite its questionable beginnings, this capitalist is all in favor of internalizing costs. This takes a step towards that.”
How about doing away with the need for all this “revenue generation” and cutting government? Is that too simple for a capitalist to grasp?
It is a stupid way for government to raise revenue, but they think they can get away with it because they think there are enough “goody two-shoes” that want to punish people who actually have someplace to go.
This is classic government behavior dividing it’s minions in some arbitrary way that is most profitable for them and then forcing one camp to pay - (they’ll get the other camp to pay some other way).
If you are really a capitalist, then you would know that private capital belongs in private hands where it will be put to most efficient use, not in the hands of government through some arbitrary revenue generation scheme - no matter what it is.
I predict that lawmakers will temper this quickly (if the courts don’t do it first) or be run out of office on a rail.
You folks that support this are losers. This is about big government, not speeders. Idiots!