...and then the price is added to the price of tyres. Like, where do you think the money is going to go? People can't easily substitute their car use, and there's nothing out there replacing rubber that's road legal, so all you're doing is just adding a tax to car use.

You could do this just as easily with gas taxes, registration fees or any other system.

> People can't easily substitute their car use... so all you're doing is just adding a tax to car use.

So long as you don't have to pay the actual costs associated with your car use, why would you _want_ to find an alternative?

> You could do this just as easily with gas taxes, registration fees or any other system.

Registration fees tax ownership of a car, not use. IMO that's... not great; if you want to own a car you rarely drive, why should you pay for everyone else's pollution?

Gas taxes could be a fair way to target CO2 emissions, but (given heavy EVs don't pay them) are a poor way to target tyre particulate pollution.

As a response to particulate pollution specifically, a tyre tax is quite closely targeted (although possibly ill-advised for other reasons, as I mentioned in my comment).

Well the political party going into power believes they have a mandate to go back in time to when things were great.

Right now that means protective tariffs are a fashionable “something” to do.

Is taxing car use bad?