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Originally Posted by patentpending  How much of that money do you think is actually going to go to fixing potholes though? I guarantee most of the money will go to construction workers working on some new great idea that ends up failing massively because of poor planning. |
I wasn't talking about government corruption and mismanagement, that's a whole other story. I was assuming, in the context of discussion, that things would be done legally and with some degree of competence.
I was talking about how things aren't as simple as "higher taxes bad MmmmKay". There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. If you skimp out and don't spend as much fixing the roads, then you'll have worse roads and ergo more wear and tear on vehicles.
Gas taxes seem like a relatively fair way of spreading out the burden of road maintenance to those who use the roads most often. Yes, not every car gets the same gas millage however it's quite common for the vehicles which have the worse gas millage to be the ones that are bigger and heavier and cause more damage to the road per mile driven. Unless you're willing to put GPS tracking devices on every car then I can't think of a more fair way of doing it, especially a system that can't be cheated as easily either.