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The San Diego County Regional Transportation Authority (SANDAG)’s latest transportation plan is designed to make driving expensive enough to yield to public transit. In addition to the current gas tax and registration fee, SANDAG plans to raise three new 0.5-cent excise taxes, convert more than 800 miles of San Diego County highway lanes to toll lanes, and pay $165 to pay. Add mileage tax per mileage. 1 billion public mass transit plan.
SANDAG’s new plan refuses to build the road improvements promised in the previous plan, but will continue to pay taxes until 2048.
SANDAG’s financial plan states that “Charging for the transportation infrastructure that people use (for example, charging users for every mile they drive on a highway) can change travel behavior.” says.
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It’s a bait and a switch. Highway dollars, gas tax dollars, and pledged registration fees for road improvements are paid in lieu of expensive public mass transit projects used by less than 3% of the public.
FILE – The downtown skyline as seen from a hill overlooking Interstate 5 in San Diego, California on July 23, 2016.
Who will this most affect? The lowest income earners. The math is easy. People with low incomes pay a disproportionately high percentage of their income to get where they need to go.
A self-proclaimed leader and advocate for social equity, SANDAG punishes low-income people first and hurts them most.
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We should not use government agendas to change our behavior by burdening us with fixed rail trains and buses. Instead of changing behavior, government agencies should encourage technology and innovation.
Governments need to take what most people have already chosen and make it cleaner, safer and more efficient. People have spoken, they choose freedom of movement and do not break promises or impose additional taxes.
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California has been the vanguard of many liberal ideas, and soon politicians may propose similar per-mile taxes in other states.
When you hear that proposal, remember that the government is no longer trying to do what is needed, but to change your mind and your actions.