[Principled]

The argument is to have gas taxes pay for things needed by gas users. That is, not have gas taxes used to pay for things unrelated to gas usage [eg medical benifits.]

Separately,

We all use most every road at one time or another and rather than carry around $50 in quarters, we pay for our roads thru taxes.

Since we all use most every road at one time then it fits well that we all pay for most every road. Tolls should be applicable in the situations in which generally speaking the road is used by a much smaller group of users regularly [like Ga 400 north of Atl.]

I don't understand your last sentence.

[vet7279]

I don't understand your last sentence.
In the 1960's the FAA decided to build Dulles airport and the politicians wanted non-stop access to their shinny new airport and thus, there were no entrance/exit points built on the roughly 20 mile, 4 lane divided highway. You got on at the beltway, and you did not get off until you got to the airport. Within a few years of the development of the airport, thousands of houses sprang up in the Dulles corridor and the only way for commuters to get to work was via back roads. After a few years of yelling, VA decided to build us a road to get to work faster so we would not use the back roads but they sold bonds to build the Dulles Access Toll road and used tolls to pay for the bonds so tax payers would not have to pay for "our" road. The Dulles Toll road has been paid for 10 fold, but we still pay tolls so the state can pay for all the other crap they do. Now these ----- want to raise the toll on the toll road again so they don't have to pay higher gas taxes so those of us that live in the Dulles area get the opportunity to pay for their roads too. And to some this makes perfect sense. They are also the ones that voted for BO.