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Yeah, parent comment neglected the fact that drivers are paying via taxes and fees. Those may not be sufficient to pay for external costs, but that's how the ro
by geomark 8y ago
Yeah, parent comment neglected the fact that drivers are paying via taxes and fees. Those may not be sufficient to pay for external costs, but that's how the roads are typically paid for.
- late2part 8y agoBy this logic people shouldn't be able to walk on streets, nor ride their bicycles, nor drive in places we haven't paid taxes?
- stouset 8y agoIf it were correct. The overwhelming majority of road costs are paid through property taxes.
- Latteland 8y agoYou might be paying taxes and fees to license them but you could well have paid nothing to that city. I can drive through your city (unless you have tolls or entry passes, but the vast majority of cities don't have those). I can just use your streets for free.
- mbreese 8y agoState routes? You probably are driving on a state route to/from that city. Also, cities can get funding from the state for road projects, so they do get access to this pool of money.
- geomark 8y agoThere are federal, state and local taxes on transportation fuels. So sure, if you drive through the city without filling up your car there then you got a free ride on that city's roads, but not the state and interstate highways leading to it. But that's one of those things that averages out due to large numbers, and where it doesn't there is usually some rebalancing of revenues by government entities.
- stouset 8y agoRoads are paid for, in large majority, by property taxes. Gas taxes and registration fees don’t even come close to half.