Re: “How to ensure mileage-tax revenue is spent on roads” [March 13, Opinion]:
As a substitute for a rise within the state fuel tax or the burden of a self reported mileage tax, maybe we must always take into account taxing one other consumable: tires.
Till good individuals invent an alternate, all autos use tires and tires have a finite lifetime. A tax added to new tires when bought, together with on new automobiles, may add the additional income wanted and catch everybody who makes use of our roads.
An imprecise estimate of about $15 per tire would generate a ten% enhance in funds for highways. Customers would search for longer-lasting tires and scale back the waste tire stream.
John Wietfeldt, Seattle
