I’ve written about this before, but just to restate my objections…The gas tax is already an approximation of a mileage tax. To the extent that it isn’t a perfect mileage tax… great! It’s also tax on heavy cars, which cause more road damage, and a tax on gas guzzlers, which are, you know, bad.
As for the politics… I don’t get why people think that “well, it’s politically infeasible to raise the gas tax, but voters will just love it if we set up a costly system to track all of their driving habits and send them a bill for how much they’ve driven.” Just weird.
According to today’s paper Governor Doyle is pushing such a tax. I wondered how it could be metered and collected…
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