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That won't work in the real world, it will just tax the poorest people and accomplish nothing tangible. There's very inelastic demand for travel by car in LA be
by swingline-747 8y ago
That won't work in the real world, it will just tax the poorest people and accomplish nothing tangible. There's very inelastic demand for travel by car in LA because everything is so spread out, making other forms of transport unworkably moot. People have to work and live, so they're just going to hate you for making their lives harder while they have no workable options. Heck, the auto industry even had the 19th/20th c. era local commuter trains ripped up so they wouldn't compete with the automobile.
- neuronexmachina 8y agoYeah, while I agree with part of the premise of a gas tax, it's unfortunately also a regressive tax (hits lower-income people proportionally harder).
- romed 8y agoDemand for travel by car is elastic to the tune of about 1 billion annual VMT per penny. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/jpube-vmt-paper.pdf https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/jpube-v...
- adrianN 8y agoThen maybe the increase of the gas tax should go hand in hand with denser zoning and public transport. Internalizing the cost of parking spaces would be a good first step.