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Not car stamps: the important distinction is that the welfare should not be earmarked for a specific use. This allows the market to behave naturally and no long

• oliwarner 10y ago
  The welfare side of this is already handled quite effectively through income tax banding, though as you say, that does indirectly tax everybody for infrastructure. But what's wrong with that? We all pay for national defence. We all pay for nationally funded arts and schooling and science. Even people without children or cancer or an interest in weird concept dance. We pay for this stuff because it makes our countries better, as a whole. Infrastructure is no different. Even ignoring that, how do you issue this welfare to people who are paying this/these road use tax? Tax them less at the pump or the tolls? Who implements this? And that still isn't fair. They're not paying for the roads they use. This money goes nationwide. Or does Tincanville (pop 30) have to shoulder the cost of their entire road network now? Unless you're willing to take this to the absolute bureaucratic extreme, and make some people pay tons for low-use roads (which age naturally, regardless of use) an indirect tax of some description is the only way to keep the entire road network viable.