Well this is getting off track, but no I don't. At the margin you might say I do, but I still don't. If I have something delivered to me, I'm not using the road, the delivery vehicle is. They should pay for the cost and bundle it in with the cost of delivery.
The real point here is not winning an argument over whether I benefit at all from the existence of any roads at all, but that we have a huge problem when we tax everyone on a fixed cost to pay for the roads and them give them away as a free good. This increases demand for automobile travel, because each additional trip costs very little. The cost of roads (which say 95% benefits automobile travel) should vary with use (and simultaneously everyone's real estate, state and federal taxes should go down since the government should not be paying for roads out of tax revenue). So in my case on the rare times I do use the roads to have something delivered, I'll pay so I'll be forced to make a choice on whether its worth incurring a financial (and indirectly environmental) versus walking to the store. The folks who drive to the grocery store will have alot more of those decisions to make.
This is the only fair way to pay for this service and its more effective in helping the environment that relying on people to limit their car use out of the goodness of their hearts. If we did this, we'd see a massive shift towards other means of transportation. There'd probably be fewer roads, we could have bigger front yards (for many properties our front yards were taken away in the 1900s to widen roads, 28 might go away, etc
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The real point here is not winning an argument over whether I benefit at all from the existence of any roads at all, but that we have a huge problem when we tax everyone on a fixed cost to pay for the roads and them give them away as a free good. This increases demand for automobile travel, because each additional trip costs very little. The cost of roads (which say 95% benefits automobile travel) should vary with use (and simultaneously everyone's real estate, state and federal taxes should go down since the government should not be paying for roads out of tax revenue). So in my case on the rare times I do use the roads to have something delivered, I'll pay so I'll be forced to make a choice on whether its worth incurring a financial (and indirectly environmental) versus walking to the store. The folks who drive to the grocery store will have alot more of those decisions to make.
This is the only fair way to pay for this service and its more effective in helping the environment that relying on people to limit their car use out of the goodness of their hearts. If we did this, we'd see a massive shift towards other means of transportation. There'd probably be fewer roads, we could have bigger front yards (for many properties our front yards were taken away in the 1900s to widen roads, 28 might go away, etc