You shouldn't be forced to pay for ANY service you don't use period.
I don't drive, so I shouldn't pay for roads?
Sounds reasonable to an extent. But if you don't drive then you're not buying gasoline. The gas tax in most states make up the majority of the budget for road maintenance. But then I have to ask if you ever use public transport? Get a ride from a friend? Use Uber or Lyft? Hell ride a bicycle? Then you're using said "service". But your burden on the system is way less than mine so you're already not paying as much as I am because you're not buying gas. I think a better argument would be not paying the public school tax if you don't have any kids or not paying into Medicare when you don't/won't get any benefit from the system.
Whoosh. You still benefit from roads if you don't use them, and schools as well.
98% of the damage to roads is done by truckers and the big loads carrying things like food, drinks, cloths, etc that everyone uses.
But then I have to ask if you ever use public transport? Get a ride from a friend? Use Uber or Lyft? Hell ride a bicycle? Then you're using said "service"
And those people are paying for it. There's no need to charge the guy along for the ride that's already "paid for."
Roads are part of the Constitution. One of the few services actually mentioned in the document is the postal service. As a constitutional right, the postal service requires the use of roads. This is why the Constitution speaks of creating and maintaining roads for postal use.
Another Whoosh. Things you don't use still benefit you indirectly. Got it now?
Toll roads and gas taxes aren't something you'd be paying if you didn't drive.
Should I pay for nigglets being raised by mothers who have no business having children?
Yes this is why tolls are the most fair way of paying for roads.
No those ways are the absolute WORST way to pay for a road in current day. First the county sells the contract to someone else with taxpayer funds, only to triple tax the consumer at the end, with the gas tax, toll tax, and county income tax. Screw toll roads
Tolls are abused the entire system is around jewery this isn't America
Whoosh. Also, tax the poor harder lol.
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