Re: Making ALL Roads Into TOLL Roads

From: Frank Looper (abettermap.NO_at_SPAM.gmail.com)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:35:23 -0500

> 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.
>
My home county added a 1% local-option sales tax, used totally for road
improvements. It worked very well; we have better-quality roads than a
much-higher-populated county next door. I think that 99+ % of the population
uses roads in one form or another.

Flip side: I don't have school-aged children, but have no choice on paying
the school tax in my county. I don't mind.

Frank

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