Re: Making ALL Roads Into TOLL Roads

From: Ivor Jones (this.address_at_notvalid.inv)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:29:24 -0000

Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:06:05 GMT, "Shy One"
> <chitowndale@ameritech.net> wrote:
>
>> So this is not an Urban Legend, it is a soon to be Urban Nightmare
>> where big brother will be able to charge for roads based upon
>> usage, making ALL roads into toll roads.
>
> What's wrong with that? That's actually more fair than the current
> system, where gasoline taxes aren't enough to pay for building and
> maintaining new roads and so governments turn to other forms of
> taxation (e.g. Orange County, CA's "Measure M" sales tax) to fund
> road projects. The problem with using sales, property, and income
> taxes to fund roads is that people who don't own cars are forced to
> pay for roads they don't use.
>
> I'm 100% in favor of dropping the indirect funding for roads and
> replacing it with direct user fees, including congestion pricing.
> Make it ubiquitous and universal to keep overhead costs down and so
> I don't have to have 30 different transponders mounted to my
> windshield. And add a GVWR factor to the pricing so that heavier
> vehicles pay more in proportion to the damage they cause to the
> road surface.

You obviously don't live in the UK. They may well start charging for road
use, but if you think Blair and his cronies will drop the already
extortionate taxes on petrol and excise discs then you're living in cloud
cuckoo land..!

Ivor

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