I just use my bike: why should I pay taxes for roads maintenance. Unfortunately, a society is not just about economics

EvanAnderson 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> I just use my bike: why should I pay taxes for roads maintenance.

Most US states pay for a significant fraction of road maintenance from motor fuel taxes ("road tax"). You probably aren't paying those taxes if you're in the US and you don't buy motor fuel.

Increased EV adoption is likely going to change that regime.

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KetoManx64 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You wouldn't have to if the government didn't own the roads. Plenty of examples of this, private companies creating their own roads and charging people a small fee to use them so they can maintain them.

Wouldn't be that hard give people a little device that tracks the roads they use and charges them $0.05 per mile that they drive and then have the company be a co-op that's owned by the people living in that town.

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xboxnolifes 2 days ago | parent [-]

Perfect way to introduce new national road middlemen: the tracking device manufacturer, the road geolabeling software company, and each road owner.

A local co-op would never last. If it could, we'd see far more local co-ops.

	▲	KetoManx64 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's hard to compete against multinational conglomerates that get tax cuts and tax breaks left and right, but they do exist, eh: REI, Ace Hardware, Land O' Lakes.