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I suspect this summary is fundamentally mistaken. I'm sure at least one poor person will have to pay this tax, but my understanding is that the revenue from it will be used to improve systems used by the general public and the wealthy are overrepresented in the expected tax base. By definition, that's the opposite of a tax on "the poor."

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Driving is an important form of freedom. The argument that driving is for rich people and the poor should do something else is absurd.

That's not the argument at all? We're talking about "the tax" and who it falls on. It's not good that some poor people will have to pay it. That's obviously a downside. It's also only one of many unfair costs pushed down to poor individuals and pretending this is the most important cost of driving a car seems silly. do you disagree with my summary that this is a net transfer to poor folks?

I don't agree that you can decide for someone what a net transfer to them is.

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