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Every passenger wears on the system. It is fair that you pay a part of things you use.

• bmicraft 5y ago
  Every road user also uses roads paid for by every tax payer so there's that.
  • alibarber 5y ago
    But everyone uses roads, driver or not. The food in the store was not grown there, your mail was probably brought along the road at some point…
  • southerntofu 5y ago
    Well that's good, isn't it? I mean if i had to choose between my taxes financing public roads/trains, and my taxes financing cops to beat up my neighbors and silence political dissent, i would without any form of hesitation choose the former. Unfortunately, we don't live in a democracy so there's not exactly a choice beyond what brand/color of corrupt overlord we'd like to see ruin our lives for the next 5 years.
  • Jenda_ 5y ago
    In .cz, we have gasoline taxed heavily, with the rationale that it pays for roads. Additionally, highways have toll (for all cars) and major roads have tolls for heavy cars (as they damage more). And a tax is paid for every car used for business purposes (company car, contractors etc.). All of this combined indeed almost covers the expenses of building and maintaining roads. Unfortunately, it does not cover any negative externalities, such as the environmental ones.
• nmeofthestate 5y ago
  Re the other reply: this'll vary by country, but the UK effectively charges a road-usage tax (fuel duty) that nets about twice as much (20Bn) as the annual spending on roads (warning - source = two minutes of googling)