Whoosh. You still benefit from roads if you don't use them, and schools as well.
That's pretty much what I just said. But what I also said is you use them LESS so your cost should be lower. And not paying a gas tax by not owning a car accomplishes just that. My argument against the public school is, well, they are shit. The quality of education our kids get is garbage. We would be better off to keep that money and spend it on a private education or a charter school of sorts. I know the difference between the quality of private/public for my kid was unreal. And in this day are you really comfortable sending children to gov run schools that fill their heads with woke BS & common core crap? Especially when the "teachers" are notoriously difficult to remove and lean further left than Lenin. Instead of the ABCs they teach CRT. Being involved if your kids education is far better.
Why should the cost be lower when you still benefit?
You benefit less. That's why if you go to McD and order a small fries, it cost less than an extra large one.
You still benefit but not as much as a direct user. It's similar to the education tax argument when folks state you don't want your fellow citizens to be idiots. But I feel that is a separate argument considering how poor said education is. Yes, you still benefit from the road because even though you walk to the store to buy your groceries, said groceries were brought by a truck that, used the roads. Hence, you could justify paying for their construction/maintenance. But, you don't directly use the road like I do. By owning/operating a car I cause direct wear and tear of the road. Therefore, my responsibility for upkeep should be higher. And it is, because I pay the gas tax every time I fuel up. That money is overwhelmingly used to build & maintain the road along with other things such as snow removal in the winter. Plus my benefit is higher because I get to choose when, where, & for the most part, how I use it. If I decide I want to drive from NY to CA, I just jump in my car and go. You're at the mercy of public transit, friends, or the Lyft driver if you need to go anywhere beyond walking distance. Your benefit is minimum, you should pay less. My benefit is maximum, I should pay more.
You still benefit from roads if you don't use them, and schools as well.
Indirect beneficiaries cannot reasonably be expected to shoulder the costs of a good or service. The public benefits when I send my kids to private school, and yet the public doesn't help pay for that. The public benefits when I do my job and do it right, yet they don't pay me. I benefit from my neighbor keeping his house in good repair, yet I don't help him pay for it.
This is a totally specious argument employed by leftists to justify government-sanctioned theft of individuals' money.
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