Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[CaptainHenreh]

Having a trucking registration fee/passenger registration fee built into our current registrations, or through gas tax is a far more effective and less costly way to tax those using roads.  

 

I am 100% against a gasoline tax for this purpose. The issue isn't people who live on the I-81 corridor, it's the 11 million tractor trailers per year traveling through Virginia on their way to god-knows-where.

A gasoline tax does not impact them. You can fill up wherever diesel is cheap and drive straight through Virginia without stopping. A toll means you don't pay unless you use the road, and an electronic-only toll is pretty inexpensive to implement. A gas tax means the least-offenders, yet greatest-sufferers pay the largest burden. Bullshit, no thank you.

Hence increasing those trucking registration fees.  The Heavy Vehicle Use Tax should be upped which is a zero cost to citizens...

Unfortunately what I refer to as "intended" money buckets tend to be used everywhere vs where it is truly in need due to our political process.

As far as gasoline tax, it was a misnomer; trucks use diesel.  Up the diesel tax.  Private citizens can then keep their receipts and send in for the personal diesel tax exemption (which is available already now).  Every state is implementing these toll roads; and the overhead from having to invoice those who do not have EZ-passes (which is part of the process) costs tax payer's money along with all the sensors.  It's not quite as cheap as you are making it to be and is an ongoing cost.

Yeah, trucking registration fees to all those trucks registered in Delaware or wherever? HVUT is federal, and I can't rely on them for jack shit. Further, allow me to quote myself again: "You can fill up wherever diesel is cheap and drive straight through Virginia without stopping." Increasing a tax on diesel isn't as effective, but don't take my word for it.