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You are assuming increased taxes from productivity/consumerism would affect the Department of Transportation's Budget. They overvalue fuel tax specially becaus

• Xophmeister 7y ago
  Showing my ignorance, but I didn't even realise that tax revenue from a certain stream (e.g., fuel tax) went directly to the government department (e.g., DfT) that instigated it, rather than it being absorbed centrally by the treasury and then redistributed according to fiscal policy. That's interesting. Doesn't that mean that certain departments will be more flush with cash simply by virtue of attracting more tax? (...and, yes, it's upsetting that this happened in real life.)