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Two points.
If we keep gas taxes high enough everyone's incentive is to drive less. I submit that it is better to for us to collect the money here rather than send it to some of our foreign 'friends' like Russia, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Venezuela. We can then spend it how we choose.
Second, perhaps this mileage tax is forward thinking to the day that we will still need roads but we will have more vehicles using something other than gasoline or diesel on the road.

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