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310 sats \ 10 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 30 Jan \ on: How EVs bankrupted Highway Trust Fund. How would an economist fix it? econ
The users should pay. They have to find a way to have the users pay for what they are using, Eisenhower’s Military Highways program was successful in getting the whole shebang built. The fuel tax after that was supposed to cover the maintenance. People that use only the local roads are paying taxes into the federal scheme.
They should privatize the whole federal system and let the private companies collect the money the way they see fit. The highways and bridges would probably get better maintenance and people would be happier with it. They could do away with the federal fuel tax, completely and let only those willing to pay use the Military Highways. This was the way it had always been done before the state convinced people that only the state could build roads. That is the cry of the statists: “Who will build the roads? Who will deliver the mail? Who will take care of the poor?” People did it before the state decided to horn in on the action. Now the state and its cronies are taking the funds and vanishing them into thin air, or should I say, into their wallets.
Usage tax
Privatize roads
eliminate fuel tax
These are good ideas. The problem with the fuel tax is you penalize drivers who never use a certain highway or bridge. What if I only use state and local roads, why should I be subject to a federal tax?
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The usage tax I was thinking of was the tolls taken from users to use these highways.
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I love tolls especially in southern California. Tolls are not common in CA.
My favorite highway is 73, which is never crowded because it's a toll road.
Some people will say this is unfair to low income drivers... it is unfair, so unfair you should kill yourself
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I have a better saying for you, ”Fair is in August.” In many states, the state fair is only in August and it implies that there is no fair at other times, but of course there is never any fair at any time, is there? Fair is only for children.
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good one
My fair lady
is it fair that Farrah Fawcett became famous from a poster
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All good replies to the ”I want fair or That isn’t fair” arguments. It always wants to make me laugh at the person making them, but that would be rude to little children, wouldn’t it?
But how would private companies chop up the interstate as it is?
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They could buy what they could afford. Auction off the whole damn thing, piece by piece. For instance sell US1 then US2 the US3 to whomever would bid the highest. Use the proceeds to pay off the national debt.
Another way is to make shares in every highway and distribute them to every American citizen of majority age and let them buy and sell shares on the markets.
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