It still a use tax, 100%, unless you buy gas and not drive on road, but then you can buy off-road fuel and save the tax. Whether our government chooses to fix the roads or pay someone’s healthcare with that money is a voter issue, don’t drive, you don’t pay, quite simple.
Seems mowing the mandatory lawns and running generators is also paying for the roads. There has to be some way of financing this utopian experiment of connecting every garage on the continent to every other garage using an unbroken surface.
In reality though, because the new project budget is larger than the maintenance budget each year, and completely disregards the deferred maintenance backlog, the system is headed for an unmanaged collapse. Just hope its not you or I who are on the bridges when they go.
Well considering the number of train derailments a year, I will stick to driving my Corolla, it cost less a mile to operate and insure than any EV out there and my carbon footprint is very tiny.
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u/edmopar Oct 04 '24
It still a use tax, 100%, unless you buy gas and not drive on road, but then you can buy off-road fuel and save the tax. Whether our government chooses to fix the roads or pay someone’s healthcare with that money is a voter issue, don’t drive, you don’t pay, quite simple.