General Road and Highway Discussion

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Oh we're back to the silly argument where a lot of people pay a bunch of money for roads, but we don't count that money because that's in their role as "tax payer" and not as their role of "car driver".  Maybe that explains those times when I just can't get to sleep.  I bet "tax payer" me is just really angry at "road user" me because "tax payer" me is so heavily subsidizing "road user" me.

I wasn't aware this discussion had already happened. 

I just can't understand the logic behind not counting the HST on gas and on vehicle purchase.  What do people propose the HST currently generated by gas and vehicle purchase be replaced with?    That money isn't coming from nowhere, is it?  So government decides to spend it on other things besides roads.  If that HST revenue did not exist, what would be paying for those "other things"?