That is, society as a whole, including owners and non-owners of motor vehicles, should pay generat taxes to provide the capital invest ment necessary to construct improyed roads, but the motor vehicle owners and users, as a separate and distinct class, should be called upon to pay spec es to maintain im. proved highways, Bond issues should always be the means employed for financing highway construction, and our ex: perience has always been that, where this is dono, the increase in wealth and the lowering of operating costs returned dividends more than adequate to defray the entire cost of the development, We believe in a low registration fee and a gasoline tex which is, of course, a tax based on highway use. The heavy truck uses more gasoline than the light truck and thus pays for the extra wear and tear on the highway. The man who docs not use his motor car very much pays less than the man who uses his constantly, In America, 46 out of 48 states now have a gasoline tax which runs from one cent per gallon to five cents per gallon, The Economic Level We believe very earnestly that alt money collected from motor vehicles should be devoted to highway use and kept separate from other revenue in the accounting system of the government. We believe it should be collected and expended under centralized state control.
Certainly motor taxes should be such that they will not check the economic use of motor vehicles.
Every country secking to keep its place among the nations of the world needs additional motor transportation cheaply produced. If a country puts high taxation on motor vehicles it will not get the additional motor transportation it needs, and such motor transportation as it does get will not be cheap~ ly produced.
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