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My first thought is that this is a pricing problem, especially considering the cost of enforcement.

Also, please consider this is just for registering the vehicle, gas taxes actually pay for road use.

> gas taxes actually pay for road use.

No, a significant chunk comes from the general fund and the federal government.

That's also true, but the point I am making is that registered vehicles may not ever get driven.

And the federal government has an 18 cent per gallon excise tax on gas which is used to fund the federal highway trust, which issues grant money for local road construction projects. It's still gas taxes funding the projects, just making a potentially unnecessary round trip through a federal bureaucracy.

It really isn't. https://t4america.org/2025/05/22/the-highway-trust-fund-isnt...

And yet the excise tax is still being charged, and the federal government is still issuing funding grants for highway construction.

This isn’t just about registration. It’s about sales tax.

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