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Taking only Gas Taxation as the only "user tax" is dubious at best "User" Based taxation figures should include 1. Gas Taxes 2. Sales Taxes on vehicles 3. R
by syshum 10y ago
Taking only Gas Taxation as the only "user tax" is dubious at best
"User" Based taxation figures should include
1. Gas Taxes
2. Sales Taxes on vehicles
3. Registrations and Inspection Fees
4. Yearly Excise Taxation
5. Environmental Fees
an several other kinds of taxes that directly apply to operation of motor vehicles,
Further this study (that I saw) did not seem to address the MASSIVE subsidy given to commercial operations on the Interstate system, the Gas taxes paid by Commercial Trucking companies is fraction of that charged to operators of non-commercial vehicles.
- ThrustVectoring 10y agoThere's also the positive externalities of infrastructure, and that winds up as land values. Like, my dad grew up in a house in what was, at the time, a rural area near Seattle. When we were driving down I-405, he'd point out a major commercial building that went up there after the freeway went up. The difference in property value between the two is almost entirely due to I-405 being there. Basically, my point is that drivable places tend to be more valuable than non-drivable, so property taxes are an indirect way of capturing the value provided by infrastructure (particularly land-value taxes).