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This is correct. Almost all road repair costs are caused by commercial heavy trucks. They should not just pay more, they should be paying substantially all road

• margalabargala 3y ago
  If we charge directly based on road damage, this is true. But I'm okay with residential road users subsidizing the use of commercial trucks; they're very useful to have around and charging appropriately would increase the cost of services not-insignificantly. Mileage taxes are interesting; then the people who use the roads the most, and have the most interest in keeping them in good shape, pay the most to do so. I'm also okay with charging heavy vehicles more based on them being a larger threat to life. But saying that tax is "because heavy residential vehicles do more road damage" is disingenuous.