Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others

On 1/23/2025 9:03 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 1/23/2025 7:55 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 1/23/2025 8:36 PM, AMuzi wrote:

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Water utilities may be a private concession or a public utility. Either way, funding is local and normally by a separate bill based on usage.

OK, water utilities are another parallel.
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My water bill is split into a certain fixed amount (paying for infrastructure, I assume) and a certain amount per cubic foot of usage.
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The current system for road fees has far, far too low a cost per mile on "usage."
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That "usage" part is usually done only by the "gas tax" which hasn't been raised for a long time. Federal gas tax is about half of what it was in the early '90s, in constant dollars.
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 In your opinion.

The change in constant dollar gas tax is not mere opinion.
https://www.pgpf.org/article/its-been-28-years-since-we-last-raised-the-gas-tax-and-its-purchasing-power-has-eroded/

 Others might say they are doing somewhat less of what they are not doing well.

Please explain. Are you seeing benefits of spending less and less money on roads?
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- Frank Krygowski