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Originally Posted by Hockey
People without cars and car insurance benefit from roads. These folks may take the bus, Uber, taxi, bike or carpool. All those use roads.
All the food and goods they buy in stores are trucked in, so they benefit from roads and road repairs.
Therefore all taxpayers should contribute to road maintenance, not just those with auto insurance.
Bad public policy to divert MPI profits to roads and maintenance IMO.
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I disagree with Bodagin's idea of MPI shuffling surplus money to roads, but remember that taxis, Ubers, busses all currently pay MPI to use insure their vehicles. Trucks would be insured as well, whether here or elsewhere in the country/continent.
Personal vehicles have an outsized per-capita contribution to the wear and tear on the roads so if this plan would go ahead, it would be fairly equitable to the wear they place on the roads, similarly to a gas tax.
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