Possibly... but they don't know _where_ you're driving those miles... when you get older and wish to spend Winter in Florida or Arizona (or, as a local TDI-Club member does, in Mexico), a homestate-based mileage tax will be completely off the mark...they already know what I'm driving per year.
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street.
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
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Sign me up! I've been the same weight, plus or minus 4 pounds, since I was a sophomore in High school, and I'm 39 now.Nuts. Next they'll be charging you for a plane ticket by how much you weigh. Oh, didn't someone just try that.
Like I said, truckers pay road and fuel taxes for each mile they travel-loaded and empty- in each state they are apportioned for. Not their problem if a state can't allocate the funds properly......80k pounds rolling down the road on 18 tires puts substantial wear on the roads. whereas a small family sedan at 3500lbs is hardly noticed by the road. motorcylces shouldn't hardly be paying much road tax at all...
That's right,keep taxing and taxing the truckers. Where the hell does all the taxes they already pay go for?????? Then people wonder why products keep going up in price and smaller sizes. The cost gets passed down to everyone.....Let's keep putting the squeeze on the truckers.Remember-the only thing trucks don't deliver is babies.....
Having been in the road construction business since the late 70's, I can tell you that you are correct. One problem is that it much easier to get funds for new roads that to patch potholes and repave existing roads. Repaving projects don't have ribbon cuttings for politicians to speak at. Most states, but not all, charge a fixed number of cents per gallon and the rate has generally not changed since the 80's or early 90's. A few states charge a percentage based sales tax but comparitively few. Some states also have toll roads but it is against regulations to put a toll on an allready paid for interstate if federal money was involved in it's construction.I am all for charging trucks paying more and passing on the costs to the end users. And fuel taxes are also not a fixed percentage of the cost of fuel and are not reindexed to inflation. Seeing as how the federal tax rate per gallon of fuel has not changed since 1993 and cost of materials to fix the roads has not stayed stagnant, it's not a large surprise that roads are in disrepair. The wear and tear of a road is to the fourth power. Trucks do a huge amount of the wear and tear to a given road. (See http://www.pavementinteractive.org/article/equivalent-single-axle-load/)
Take a drive on I-35 north of Kansas City near the Missouri and Iowa border. The road is in terrible shape. I feel like I am on one of the car rides on tracks from all the ruts worn into the road. The road was repaved recently and is already worn down.