Originally Posted by
contango
If roads are paid for from fuel taxes alone it's a fair point. Assuming there isn't a team of bean counters somewhere making sure that only some forms of tax get ring-fenced for roads it's probably safe to say they are funded from taxation in general. So a cyclist who stops and buys a cake will pay some form of sales taxes, probably in proportion to the damage their bike causes. Cyclists who rack up large mileages will buy more cereal bars and jelly babies, so pay more in taxes to fund the damage they cause to the roads.
Seems perfectly fair to me.
No, it's not a fair point.
I even posted a link as to why it's not a fair point: money is fungible. If you think "it's a fair point", you don't understand that about money.
And we know roads aren't paid for with "fuel taxes" or "road taxes" anyway.