I get beat-up EVERY TIME that I call for a gas tax increase...so I figured I’d call for the alternative - since we WILL get one or the other.
Looks like that’s not too popular either.
Call for fiscal responsibility. With that, more taxes or pay by the mile schemes won't be needed.
Ha Ha! You are correct we will get one or the other and you will get beat up for suggesting either.
My concern with tolls is that most lead to massive tracking as the systems (as in Europe) would likely be based on license plate recognition. That would provide a large database of people’s movements (probably with pictures/facial recognition).
Tolls always end up more expensive than even the least economical gas guzzler would pay in tax, and would probably rise faster with less resistance (politicians: “but it’s a private corporation, what can we do?”).
As roads do need to be paid for the gas tax is probably the easiest and least intrusive. If they do increase the gas tax than at they should remove the gap between diesel and gasoline. That would allow diesel powered cars a fair shake in the market (the days of agricultural diesel engines are long gone; modern diesels can provide all the performance of gasoline with none of the rattle of diesels of old).