“For all its flaws, a mileage-based revenue stream is much closer to a true “pay-as-you-go” system. A car that gets 40 mpg causes just as much congestion as one that gets 20 mpg, so there’s really no reason why the driver of the 20-mpg car should effectively pay twice as much in taxes as the other one. “
Who says they won’t ‘adjust’ the road pricing due to gas mileage, greenhouse gasses, time of day, which particular road, income level, or Tea Party affiliation?
This opens a HUGE CAN OF WORMS that we would all be better, and freer, not having to deal with.
Right. It’s the electronic tracking that’s the biggest concern here, not the general principle of mileage-based taxation.