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Originally Posted by ipsum
@ rice_classic, but what about miles driven? An owner of an F-350 that puts 3000 miles a year will pay the same amount of road tax as a 30,000 mile-a-year F-350. That's not fair. |
I was just brainstorming... Glad I'm not in charge of solving this.. Although if I was I'd start by firing everyone in Olympia and starting over.
The tax could be based on a calculated average. Some drive less, some drive more.. law of averages and all that but yes, some will pay less or more than their 'fair share'.
Taxes are NEVER fair unfortunately. WA state sales tax is a super regressive for example. One could argue that a tax per mile is also unfair because often poorer people can't live close to work (ahem, Seattle gentrification much?) so poorer people often have no choice but to commute. It would disproportionately affect those who cannot afford to live inside the city, which is A LOT of people, have you seen those rents lately!
The only FAIR solution is for government to spend money more efficiently, but since that's never going to happen the only solution, unfortunately, is going to be an unfair one... at least to
some.