3 ms·
Here is the article covering that: "Tolls may disproportionately burden the poor, but so do sales taxes, gas taxes and every other way we pay for roads." It t
by cnnsucks 10y ago
Here is the article covering that:
"Tolls may disproportionately burden the poor, but so do sales taxes, gas taxes and every other way we pay for roads."
It then goes on to sort-of suggest that despite this new pain the net benefit will be better for "working-class" people......somehow. No thoughts were offered on how to keep the toll revenue from just padding out civil servant pensions and benefits while the traffic and roads muddle on.
- skybrian 10y agoAs I understand it, the idea is that if you're already collecting sales and gasoline taxes to pay for roads, collecting the same amount of money through tolls instead isn't any more regressive (it replaces one regressive tax with another), plus it cuts down on traffic. On the other hand, replacing income tax with tolls really would be regressive. (But I don't know enough about taxes to say if that's really true.)