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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
Gas tax is basically one of the most easy to impliment and fairest types of transportation infrastructure.
You drive a lot and put demand on city roads? You'll pay more because of it.
You drive a really fuel efficient vehicle so it doesn't hurt you too bad? Well fine, good for you for not polluting all over the city.
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Thats a really simplistic assumption of peoples habits and uses. For most of the week I fill up my employers vehicle everyday and promptly hit a provincial highway. So now my employers costs increase to deliver goods outside the city. Talk about driving inflation.
This is conversation should really be about the lower levels of Government picking the easiest target, the taxpayer instead of going to the Federal levels to get some of the existing gasoline taxes for transportation projects. Politicians are always yapping about competitiveness, yet continually find ways to make our domestic production less competitive.
Secondly this City in particular has a spending problem, it's like the tennant that bums rides everywhere, borrows food, but always has the latest xbox game, coolest t-shirts and money for concert tickets. The word missing from this city is priority.