Originally Posted by Aron9000

The way we tax fuel to pay for road construction is flawed, as pointed out earlier.

If you really want a fair way to pay for road construction, tax people based on number of miles driven. Those who use the roads more often pay more. Guaranteed if we had a tax system like this in place back in the 1940's/50's, there wouldn't be a such thing a suburban sprawl.

Of course tracking number of miles driven is kind of a hard thing to do. You could put GPS trackers in cars, but IMO that's way too big brother. I know if you had yearly inspections and recorded the miles on the odometer, people would find a way to cheat at that(roll back their odometers). Best I can figure is that you enter your VIN and mileage every time you purchase gas, pretty hard to cheat the system that way. Still that's a big invasion of privacy, the government can still kind of track your habits that way.