nickthehunter wrote:
BCSnob wrote:
I’d go the other way, roads are paid for by users; new transportation projects are paid for by other funding sources (like income or business tax).
so when you raise the taxes on the guy that makes Cheerios, where do you suppose he gets the money to pay that increase in tax?
So who should pay for adding more lanes to highways or building mass transit to carry increasing traffic commuting to work?
Business (current or new) adding employees
Housing developers building new neighborhoods
People who live in rural areas that won’t use the new transportation infrastructure
Print more money (borrow from the future)
Let corporations build and charge for it (toll lanes with dynamic tolling at $40/10miles at “rush hr”)
Or just let everyone deal with longer commute times
It’s easy to say “don’t do it that way”; it’s much harder to actually propose a solution to the increasing traffic and crumbling roads and bridges. Try it……
