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What do you mean freeloading? Do you know how many taxes do you pay to have a vehicle, gas, etc?
by blell 8mo ago
What do you mean freeloading? Do you know how many taxes do you pay to have a vehicle, gas, etc?
- bryanlarsen 8mo agoYou perhaps pay tens of dollars per month. Is that enough to fully cover all externalized costs of owning that vehicle? No.
- blell 8mo agoThe government says yes. In fact, knowing the government, they probably get a huge surplus from my taxes. What makes you say no?
- hamdingers 8mo agoYou should look up how your local government pays for the kinds of local roads you can park on. If you live in the US, there's a very good chance that's coming from the property and sales tax everyone pays, not any tax on your vehicle.
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- triceratops 8mo agoYou're leaving your property on public land. How much would that land rent for?
- ragall 8mo agoThe car registration and gas taxes don't even pay for a quarter of all road-infrastructure-related costs. It boggles the mind to see free street parking in places like NYC, where a more reasonable cost structure would be something like other cities around the world (and Canada) do: divide the territory in parking districts. Locals can buy a discounted annual pass for the district where their main residence is located (should not cost less than $400/month in a place like Manhattan), while elsewhere the rate should be at least $10-12/hour.