Funding roads (taxes, user fees etc)

[danbrotherston]

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Things aren't perfect, but no sense of screwing around with things.
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Whatever issues I have with the rest of the comment, this one sticks out.  The idea that things just stay the same if we do nothing is so pervasive and yet, so false.

The fuel tax has devalued substantially given improving fuel economy in vehicles.  It will eventually (and not that far out) go to zero once electric vehicles become more common.  The fact it, in the do nothing scenario, drivers are paying less and less of the costs of driving (however little they have ever been directly paying), while incurring greater and greater costs against the rest of the public.

Our world is always changing so to take no action *is* a change, but it's one with very little thought put into the effects.