Originally Posted by
dhofmann
With so many municipalities having trouble balancing their budgets and maintaining the roads, now might be a good time to suggest toll roads and HOT lanes. Why should people who don't use the freeways have to help pay for them? Gas taxes alone are too indiscriminate.
Just to be clear, "highway use" would be some sort of toll, congestion toll, and so on. The reason you would use gasoline taxes is that it is easier to collect (at least my reckoning) and if you want people to use less gasoline.