What do you mean freeloading? Do you know how many taxes do you pay to have a vehicle, gas, etc?
You're leaving your property on public land. How much would that land rent for?
You perhaps pay tens of dollars per month. Is that enough to fully cover all externalized costs of owning that vehicle? No.
The car registration and gas taxes don't even pay for a quarter of all road-infrastructure-related costs. It boggles the mind to see free street parking in places like NYC, where a more reasonable cost structure would be something like other cities around the world (and Canada) do: divide the territory in parking districts. Locals can buy a discounted annual pass for the district where their main residence is located (should not cost less than $400/month in a place like Manhattan), while elsewhere the rate should be at least $10-12/hour.