Wholly agree. However, it’s easy to imagine fair ways to phase in changes—e.g. announce that in 20 years we’re going to start charging for this road (or selling rights to it, or whatever). We’ll pay you subsidies that decrease each year for the next 10 years after that. We would have had to re-do the road with your tax dollars by then anyway, so you’re not worse off.
Right. Another way would be to take the toll revenues and from them, give each person enough to afford “average driving” so that you would only lose on net from driving more than usual. Etc.
I agree that the problem is tractable, it’s just that this is the most difficult part, and those that address it give it the least attention.
Wholly agree. However, it’s easy to imagine fair ways to phase in changes—e.g. announce that in 20 years we’re going to start charging for this road (or selling rights to it, or whatever). We’ll pay you subsidies that decrease each year for the next 10 years after that. We would have had to re-do the road with your tax dollars by then anyway, so you’re not worse off.
Right. Another way would be to take the toll revenues and from them, give each person enough to afford “average driving” so that you would only lose on net from driving more than usual. Etc.
I agree that the problem is tractable, it’s just that this is the most difficult part, and those that address it give it the least attention.