BCSnob wrote:
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……
we’re going to pay, one way or the other. The only question is how many pockets it passes through until it gets to ours. Of course the man won’t tell you it’s coming out of your pocket, he wants you to believe someone else is paying for it. So instead of lying about it (and trying to make them believe someone else is paying for it), how about just saying we’re going to raise your taxes x% to pay for new roads; and cut out all the middlemen and their cut.
