Funding roads (taxes, user fees etc)

[ijmorlan]

So it comes down to ‘if I don’t use it why should I pay for it’! With that thinking then I shouldn’t have to pay for transit as I don’t use it. I shouldn’t have to pay for public education since I don’t have children in school. I should contribute less to healthcare because I don’t smoke, I exercise regularly and am generally in good health. I could go on and on. I don’t mind paying for all of these services and others equally even if I personally may not be benefitting from them if it benefits society as a whole.

No, please read what I wrote more carefully. It comes down to, if I still have to pay for it when I don’t use it then it is not user-funded.

Which sometimes is entirely appropriate, and other times leads to problems, but by itself it’s just an observation about how it is funded.

There is no “should” in anything I’ve written in this thread, other than possibly people “should” try harder to understand what others are saying and not assume they are saying something they aren’t.