Somebody is already paying, they just decide to not spend the money on roads here and paint a story of "need moar $$$".
^^^THIS^^^
But we're supposed to feel better if the new tax is dedicated to a specific need.
Maybe we'll get a "Road Repair Lock Box." They can have it keyed like the lock box for Social Security.
Here in Virginia they have floated the idea of a per-mile-driven tax, since electric vehicles don't pay the road repair taxes that are assessed at the pump. Of course, this involves installing a monitoring device on our vehicles "to track our miles."
Purely benign...This won't hurt a bit...Trust us... It also [intentionally] punishes those of us who live in spread-out rural areas for having the audacity to reject congested city life.
This idea got rejected, but it will be back.
We already pay a sales tax at time of vehicle purchase (new or used), plus an annual registration fee to keep our tags current, plus an annual safety & emissions inspection fee, PLUS Annual Personal Property Tax on cars/boats/trailers/etc. (real estate gets its own tax.) My county is trying to raise the Personal Property Tax Rate from 1.9% of FMV to 3% of FMV (Annual PP Tax on a $40,000 car would go from $760 to $1,200).
Add all this to the state & Federal road tax paid at the pump, and there's STILL no money for repairs. Huh. It must have been spent on "the children," along with those lottery proceeds.
So much to seethe about and so little time....
Anyway...back on topic...I'm glad I found out the CR-V had oil dilution issues, not only because I dodged a horrible bullet, but because it pointed me to the CX-5. The RAV-4 was briefly on my radar screen but did not compare to the CX-5 in appointments or driveability.