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The original commenter stated: "We need to start making consumers pay for their negative externalities." Alls I was trying to say is that consumers are alread
by bdangubic 2y ago
The original commenter stated:
"We need to start making consumers pay for their negative externalities."
Alls I was trying to say is that consumers are already paying crazy money. 26 states have property taxes on cars! In VA even with all that PLUS a special tax for EVs PLUS most of the roads around the DC metro area are tollroads it is still not enough :)
I was being facetious talking about pension funds - what I was basically trying to say that whatever money is collected isn't going to where it should be going - if there is a budget shortfall (and wouldn't you know - there always is...) money gets appropriated to other things...
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoYeah my first paragraph was the important one. Building and maintaining roads is really expensive.
- bdangubic 2y agoNo doubt. And in the United with all the corruption happening at the Local levels it is A LOT more expensive than it needs to be (just look at what happens when some major issue arises - https://www.forconstructionpros.com/infrastructure/article/22865801/what-the-rapid-repair-of-i95-in-philadelphia-says-about-americas-infrastructure https://www.forconstructionpros.com/infrastructure/article/2... - this was fixed in two weeks - if this project was actually done as "normal" infrastructure project it would have take a year at a cost of like $891 million). But money is already being collected for these things through 89 different taxations - so more revenue is 100% not the way to fix this problem.