Even non drivers end up benefiting from freight hauling. Without it, we’d all have to go and pick things up. Centralizing the taxation for upkeep, even though it will get passed on to consumers actually seems like a fairly balanced idea on the surface.
It’s a new idea to me, and I haven’t picked it apart much yet though.
Playing with it in my head as I write, the only real hole I can see is with goods that are so essential that even a small increase in cost becomes a bigger burden on lower incomes. But negating the taxes for those items in specific should remove that burden, so things like food don’t get absurd.
Since it would also solve for part of the increased administration costs, since expanding an existing system is easier than creating a new one, it’s just as viable as taxing the “fuel” by metering recharging.
Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems like a viable option once exactly which goods need to be either tax exempt, or taxed at a lower rate
Eh, I don’t know that it’s unfair though.
Even non drivers end up benefiting from freight hauling. Without it, we’d all have to go and pick things up. Centralizing the taxation for upkeep, even though it will get passed on to consumers actually seems like a fairly balanced idea on the surface.
It’s a new idea to me, and I haven’t picked it apart much yet though.
Playing with it in my head as I write, the only real hole I can see is with goods that are so essential that even a small increase in cost becomes a bigger burden on lower incomes. But negating the taxes for those items in specific should remove that burden, so things like food don’t get absurd.
Since it would also solve for part of the increased administration costs, since expanding an existing system is easier than creating a new one, it’s just as viable as taxing the “fuel” by metering recharging.
Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems like a viable option once exactly which goods need to be either tax exempt, or taxed at a lower rate