alt Hacker NewsThe people who use something should pay for its upkeep. It doesn't matter if that makes it a "regressive" tax. If you are a daily user of a road, you should pay more for its upkeep than someone who doesn't use the road.
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tstrimple • yesterday at 4:20 AM
If that's the case, trucking companies should be paying 99.99% of taxes to maintain roads. They are responsible for almost all of the deterioration.
hoppyhoppy2 • yesterday at 1:26 AM
>The people who use something should pay for its upkeep.
Fee-for-service city parks? Public libraries? Fire departments? Sidewalks? What about investing in the "public good"?
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thfuran • last Saturday at 9:54 PM
>The people who use something should pay for its upkeep
Why? That doesn’t seem like a good way to run society.
Why should a delivery driver pay the toll for the road to my house, and not me? Why should I be able to exploit flat-rate product pricing like that and skim some money from all customers of the delivery service?
Why should I pay the toll to drive to a friend's house? They're the one getting the benefit out of having easy access to transportation.
What if my taxes pay for all the roads in my town, while the neighboring town chooses to implement tolls instead? Why should I get double-taxed? Prisoner's dilemma and race-to-the-bottom?
Why should I have to deal with having my license plate stolen, and police time wasted (who are paid out of taxes), because of people who don't pay the tolls?