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.
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 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.
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."
I am constantly taxed to pay for useless welfare violent feral niggers who give no benefit to society, in fact are a drain.
I propose convert all the niggers into asphalt and finally turn them into something remotely useful.
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