That would be a nice effect. I point that out whenever people talk about investing more in the rail system. If they just subsidized the roads less, more people and businesses would choose rail on their own.

There's a bit of a generational thing to this. Boomers just love their cars and as long as they're politically relevant, tons of tax money will continue flowing towards the roads.

Undisciplined

libertarian

BuT, wHaT aBoUt ThE rOaDs?

The vehicle owner is a protected class in american law/culture.

https://stacker.com/society/how-driving-subsidized-america

Maybe a privatization of roads will somewhat weaken the incentive for the state to subsidize drivers.