WhatFinger

Benefit of privatizing the roads is that governments at all levels wouldn't be able to justify tax hikes by claiming "we need to fix the roads."

The Gas Tax Has Little to Do With Road Costs


The Gas Tax Has Little to Do With Road Costs In a previous article, I explained that the federal gasoline tax was a very crude way to fund highways, because there is only a tenuous link between gasoline consumption and highway usage. I followed up with an article explaining that once you add in state and local taxes on gasoline, you're already talking over 20 percent of the price of a gallon at the pump, and furthermore the proposed hike of 25 cents per gallon would push the tax on gasoline above the limit appropriate for the "social cost of carbon" as estimated by the EPA.
Read Full Article...

Welcome to CFP’s Comment Section!

The Comment section of online publications is the new front in the ongoing Cancel Culture Battle.

Big Tech and Big Media are gunning for the Conservative Voice—through their Comment Sections.

Canada Free Press wishes to stay in the fight, and we want our fans, followers, commenters there with us.

We ask only that commenters keep it civil, keep it clean.

Thank You for your patience and for staying aboard the CFP ‘Mother Ship’.

READ OUR Commenting Policy


CFP Comments

Commenting is not available in this channel entry.

Comments


Support Canada Free Press

Donate


Recommended by Canada Free Press


Subscribe

Sponsored