Re: User Taxes
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Except that the big backbones of the internet are not really privately own.
The problem for me is roads that only has a few users, in rural places and so on. The roads really are necessary, somehow the food has got to come from the farm to the consumer, but the farmer(s) can't really absorb the price of them.
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The farms could absorb the price, because people have to eat. Farmers have voluntarily built some of the most successful cooperatives I've ever seen. It's the issue of backbone connections that leads me toward a fuel tax. My original point however, was that a fuel tax more equitably correlates use and cost -- and it can be avoided as a direct tax simply by not purchasing fuel.
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