The article would be more helpful if it provided estimates of what gasoline-vehicle owners typically pay each year.
If it is equivalent, and I doubt it is, then a more effective strategy would not be lump sum shockers like this.
If it is equivalent, and I doubt it is, then a more effective strategy would not be lump sum shockers like this.
Since neither gasoline nor electric cars or light trucks do any damage to roads compared to commercial trucking, it doesn’t make sense to talk about either kind of car paying its fair share. That is just a rhetorical method of selling the public on a new tax.
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Commercial trucking pays far higher fuel, registration, and road use taxes than private automobiles.
> the proposed legislation would also more than double the state’s gas tax to 44 cents a gallon and raise the registration fee for standard vehicles to $148, from $98, among other elements.