The only fair way to tax cars (and semi trucks and buses) now is to take a mileage reading every yearly inspection, combine that with the car weight, and charge a per mile fee for each vehicle based on that data.
This is the way
ELI5 why can’t we just do away with the property tax and make all roads toll roads?
We can do that, but if you want commerce to thrive and poor people not to starve in their homes, having public non-toll roads is for the best.
Also, getting rid of property taxes would be effectively a huge gift to the wealthy, who are already getting richer disproportionately fast.
I mean we could intentionally go back to the feudal system, but I think most people would riot.
Property tax is about much more than roads.
It’s mostly not about roads. It about police, fire, schools, and practically everything else also.
every yearly inspection
LOL. No one inspects cars in North America.
It should be same fee for all cars regardless of powertrain. Adjust for weight if needed. Adjust gas price to compensate.
Or just tax the tires.
This is brilliant: tire wear (loss of X grams of rubber) scales with distance traveled, vehicle weight, speed and aggressive driving.
but the supply chain is very hard to lock-down, without tire serial numbers.
Then people will buy harder tires which are more dangerous.
Yep, that’s because it’s from the party owned by oil.
land of the free (to be scammed and ripped off). Home of the brave (and stupid to stay)
Very few have the means to just leave.
oh no a $250 dollar fee on my EV is going to ruin all the math I did with gas at a $2.50 when I got my car. oh wait its how much now?
