"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Congestion Pricing for Road Finance: Time to Replace Gasoline Taxes?
"Today’s motor-fuel taxes are, at best, an imperfect user fee. One problem is that inflation and increasingly fuel-efficient cars have rapidly eroded gas tax revenues. After adjusting for inflation, drivers today pay only a third as much for each mile they drive as they did in 1956, when Congress created the Interstate Highway System."
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Inside-the-beltway libertarians are willing to turn America into a surveillance state, merely to get a little more government efficiency. They've been peddling this crap for years.
It is necessary to think on this aspect and also the drivers are doing their business and thinking about every other alternative to save money.
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