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Originally Posted by Riverman
Because increasing the cost of fuel increases the cost of everything. Everything you purchase, everything you eat was brought to you on a truck. This type of thing also hits poor people the hardest, in a province where we tax the shit out of the poor.
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Trucking companies are rich. They put their heavy trucks on cheap asphalt road. The road get bumpy, the people complain, the property tax goes up, and poor who don't have a car end up paying for roads. The money has to come from somewhere. Subsidising roads means subsidising trucking companies. They have enough money.
Taxing poor people less just makes them lazy. You get what you pay for. You don't get what you don't pay for. If food is too expensive, grow your own. If anything is too expensive, make it yourself. If you can't make it, someone can, and they won't have to transport it across the world to get it to you. Subsidising roads is messing with the free market, and you must be very careful before messing with the free market.
Subsidising roads encourages us to rely on imports. Low gas tax means more distance between us and where we get our stuff from. High gas tax effects the poor much less than high property tax. The money has to come from somewhere.
If it were more expensive to live, people would not work for $10 per hour. We need to encourage entrepreneurship. Otherwise the middle class will become poor as we subsidise, and subsidise. If things are too expensive, it is not the government's fault, unless taxes are coming from the wrong source, and property tax is the wrong source. If your job doesn't pay enough, go build a business that does make enough.
Transportation is at an artificially deflated price. If we want Centreport to work, we need to get the real price of transportation. Some would say that high gas tax means Centreport would work less, but that is incorrect. If the whole country(and the US) had high gas tax, then Centreport would work better, because they will get their stuff from us, instead of China which is far away.