Don’t we already pay per-mile user fees in the form of gasoline taxes?
YES, We DO
Federal gasoline excise taxes: totals to 40.4 cents per gallon ( not per mile). Plus state and local taxes.
But not your fair share. /s
We do. Both State and Federal Governments charge a fuel tax.
The problem with ELECTRIC vehicles is there is no current method to tax them based on their usage of the roads.
We currently have state and federal taxes per gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel. Technically if you are putting diesel in your farm tractor you do not have to pay a highway tax because you are not driving it on the road typically. This is similar to commercial fisherman can purchase commercial diesel to power their boats/ships. Pleasure boats are not allowed to burn commercial diesel.
However, IF you drive an electric car there is no method to tax that vehicles usage of the state/interstate highway system other than the tax/kilowatt.
That is a problem for the government IF we start having an increasing percentage of people driving electric automobiles and tractor trailers.
Its all about the Benjamins.
Yes but gas tax is so ancient everyone forgot about it. This amount of taxing and spending will lead us into the future!