Most taxes and fees fall most heavily on the poor, unless they are deliberately designed or offset somehow. That doesn't mean that they aren't the right way to go. Only that there needs to be an offset designed in.
The point is it costs more to fly at Xmas due to demand, and the price signal from that means people defer less important travel and only do important travel.
Most taxes and fees fall most heavily on the poor, unless they are deliberately designed or offset somehow. That doesn't mean that they aren't the right way to go. Only that there needs to be an offset designed in.
But people driving gasoline-fueled cars don't damage roads. Diesel-fueled 18 wheelers do.
A tax on commerce, who can afford it, is preferable to a tax on the smallfolk.
Disproportionate is an epic understatement.I want to agree that this is a good point. 18-wheelers do disproportionate damage. Electric cars skirt the tax. Taxing the gasoline isn't the perfect solution. But I think it really does need to be in the toolkit.
Very good, yes, starting at about page ten, that report is very useful. Thanks. I can use it to forward to people elsewhere.
A Rav 4 is about 2 gallons per 100 miles (highway), trucks are what? 16 gallons per 100 miles?
There's no way that a gasoline tax would properly catch that. You'd need a separate licensing system, where the truck buys tags that allows them onto certain roads. Very tough to do those tags, since their cost would have to be proportionate to how much time they spent in a district.
And difference in things transported even more? Barges do burn a lot of fuel per mile traveled, and they take all this lock and dam stuff...
And difference in things transported even more? Barges do burn a lot of fuel per mile traveled, and they take all this lock and dam stuff...