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> Ironically roads should also have caps and/or tolls, so this take is strange. We'll set up electronic tolls on your cul-de-sac and every light and stop sign,
by eganist 3y ago
> Ironically roads should also have caps and/or tolls, so this take is strange.
We'll set up electronic tolls on your cul-de-sac and every light and stop sign, or toll you by mile driven using an odometer beaconing out to the tax authorities per drive and registered to your tax ID number (US) or equivalent. And then cap you on the number of miles you're allowed to drive per year on all cars unless you pay an additional fee.
Older cars must be retrofit at the driver's expense.
Also the auditing and anti-fraud infrastructure must be instituted for all of this.
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Or we can just do flat taxes and chill.
- endisneigh 3y agoFlat taxes are regressive and inefficient, but I suppose we can still chill.
- vel0city 3y agoI'm absolutely down for vehicle registration fees to relate to miles driven and weight classifications, and major highways being funded by extra tolling. The streets in my neighborhood cost way less per mile for maintenance than giant highways with massive bridges and interchanges. It makes sense they'd cost more to use. Showing the real cost of these things to consumers might make them change their minds about riding the train. These days a lot of people don't even think about the cost of driving their car across town, but gosh that metro day pass is $5? How expensive!
- eganist 3y ago> gosh that metro day pass is $5? How expensive! Nah, metro day pass should cost as much as howevermany miles the buyer traveled. Otherwise people who buy the passes for just one stop would be subsidizing the costs for people who travel from one end of a line to the other. It'd be pretty shit to meter one and not the other.