BIKE: "States Mull Taxing Drivers By Mile"

[Richard Ryan]

OK, let's take the responses one at a time:
 
1) Goods and services  -  rail and water also supply goods and services, but they are not subsidized anywhere near the level of roads.  The days of when federal transportation dollars were being spent to set up the Interstate transportation network to move goods and service are long gone.  Now federal dollars are spent to build loop roads for commuters.
 
2) What in hell is cost control?
 
3) Emergency services = you mean when the cops and EMS are spending all their time with vehicle accidents?
 
4) and the like - you mean how the air I breathe is being polluted more and more each year as more drivers choose to drive more miles on more roads?
 
The sooner we realize we are creating future slums in the burbs - the better.  
 
The per mile idea was originally for insurance - like the more miles one drives, the more likely they are to have an accident.  Any problem with that concept?
 
Dick
 

"agelfand" <agelfand> wrote:


First of all, everyone benefits from the roads (whether they drive on them
or not) in the form of good and services, cost control, public
maintainence/emergency services, and the like. 
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