[vet7279]

Don’t you think the ones who use it should pay for it?
Ok, lets pull toll booths on every road in Virginia, drop the state tax on gas. I am in.
We need some common sense here. We all use most every road at one time or another and rather than carry around $50 in quarters, we pay for our roads thru taxes. When the FAA built Dulles, they told virginia what they were doing and that their prediction was there would be tremendous development in the Dulles corridor. The FAA offered to build extra lanes to let commuters use the road if Virginia would help pay for the road and Virginia said up yours, so we have the mess we have today.

[Principled]

The argument is to have gas taxes pay for things needed by gas users. That is, not have gas taxes used to pay for things unrelated to gas usage [eg medical benifits.]

Separately,

We all use most every road at one time or another and rather than carry around $50 in quarters, we pay for our roads thru taxes.

Since we all use most every road at one time then it fits well that we all pay for most every road. Tolls should be applicable in the situations in which generally speaking the road is used by a much smaller group of users regularly [like Ga 400 north of Atl.]

I don't understand your last sentence.