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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:55:49 -0500
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On 1/23/2025 8:36 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>  
> Water utilities may be a private concession or a public utility. Either 
> way, funding is local and normally by a separate bill based on usage.
OK, water utilities are another parallel.

My water bill is split into a certain fixed amount (paying for 
infrastructure, I assume) and a certain amount per cubic foot of usage.

The current system for road fees has far, far too low a cost per mile on 
"usage."

That "usage" part is usually done only by the "gas tax" which hasn't 
been raised for a long time. Federal gas tax is about half of what it 
was in the early '90s, in constant dollars.


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