Opinion: How should we pay for our roads? Tax Teslas.
A man attaches a charging plug to a 2017 Volt hybrid electric car at a charging station. By Henry Olsen Henry Olsen Columnist focusing on politics, populism, and American conservative thought Email Bio Follow Columnist May 1 at 2:32 PM The infrastructure meeting Tuesday between President Trump and congressional Democrats produced a commitment to spend $2 trillion to upgrade our nation’s roads, bridges, airports and waterways. Senate Minority Leader Charles E.
That is unfair for two reasons. If roads should be paid for by drivers, then all drivers should pay for roads. People who drive all-electric vehicles get a free lunch while people who drive hybrids get a subsidized meal. Moreover, those cars are more expensive than their gas-fueled cousins, meaning that the people who drive them are likely more able to pay for roads anyway.
Such an approach would replace gas taxes with a two-tiered financing system. Tier one would be a federal mileage-based user fee. The owner of any vehicle would have to pay per mile driven rather than per gallon of fuel consumed. This would force Tesla and Prius owners to pay full price for the roads they use. It would also be market-driven, as it would present every driver with a clear choice: Drive more, pay more; drive less, pay less.
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