I wish I could figure a way to make the following suggestion not so painful on the working poor, but if the social cost of burning a gallon of gas is $2.10, why not hike the gas tax to something north of that AND index it for inflation automatically?
I realize that I have a certain privilege to live 15 minutes from work, and that those who drive long distances to work would be hurt by such a policy, if you take today as a frame of reference. But, perhaps they should be hurt by it, if indeed they're costing society that excess amount.
Phasing it in linearly over an 8 year period starting 2 years from now would blunt some of the transitional sting, perhaps.
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I wish I could figure a way to make the following suggestion not so painful on the working poor, but if the social cost of burning a gallon of gas is $2.10, why not hike the gas tax to something north of that AND index it for inflation automatically?
I realize that I have a certain privilege to live 15 minutes from work, and that those who drive long distances to work would be hurt by such a policy, if you take today as a frame of reference. But, perhaps they should be hurt by it, if indeed they're costing society that excess amount.
Phasing it in linearly over an 8 year period starting 2 years from now would blunt some of the transitional sting, perhaps.