On 15 Jun 2022 at 12:31, Bill Dube via EV wrote: > Don't tax fuel. Tax tires.
That's an interesting idea. The US did at one time have an excise tax on tires. IIRC, it was first enacted to pay for costs of WW1 (or maybe WW2) and extended for some time after that. It was based on tire weight. I think, but I'm not 100% sure, that it expired in 2011. It may have been extended for certain classes of tires. > If you tax tires according to their load rating, and also perhaps by > their wear rating, you can properly tax vehicles on how much "road" they are > "using up." This is a good idea, IMO. It also helps to cover the public costs of particulate pollution from tires, something that isn't often considered. > There is a down side to this approach. Folks will not replace worn out > tires. I think this problem could be ameliorated by including the tax in the tire purchase price, rather than as a separate line item. Or impose the tax at the wholesale level. It would also help to phase it in over a period of years. > They will also buy the very cheapest tires possible. Unsafe incentive. Heck, a lot of folks already do that. Another downside of a tire tax is that it wouldn't be tied to the taxpayer's ability to pay. (Rich people usually don't consider that a downside.) But then neither is the fuel tax. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Most actors are deepfake combinations of prize hams. -- Dorothy Gambrell, "Cat and Girl" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
