Electric Vehicles? Towing? Hauling?
There seems to be quite a push lately for zero emission vehicles and electric only vehicles. How on Earth would these ever work for us? You can't go cross country in an electric vehicle in a pra...
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rk911 wrote:JaxDad wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
Fuel tax is the primary source for road funding and is one of the most fair methods as it is directly tied to your use of the system...but EVs circumvent this.
Fair? Hardly!
I drive my SUV about the same distance (35k miles) per year as my neighbour drives her Honda.
Except, her Honda burns (pays taxes on) roughly 700 gallons of gas, while my SUV burns roughly 2,250 gallons, or approximately 325 % more and so I pay about 3.25 times more tax to do the same amount of driving.
Can someone say (with a straight face) that my ride creates more than 3 times the amount of maintenance of roads that her Honda does?
Mind you, she also has 4 kids that go to school for free, I have no children, but I pay more than 10 times the school taxes she does........
nothing is free, let's get that straight. and you chose a vehicle that gets 1/3 the gas mileage she gets. that's a choice. and presuming that your schools are funded via property tax you apparently own a home that's bigger, in a better neighborhood and/or newer than hers. that's also a choice. if the roles were reversed would you be complaining? got a better solution?
Wrong, on all counts.
Yes, lots of things are “free”, her kids education for example.
You see, ALL properties pay school taxes, farms, commercial, industrial, even VACANT land. Our houses are VERY similar, I just happen to own a bunch of other lands too.
Better solution? You bet. Pay tuition, pay per mile you drive, any for what YOU use, not for someone else’s use.
