
Rep. David Price (D-N.C.)
floated the idea of enacting a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax as a way
to fund infrastructure projects.
A VMT would charge motorists based on how many miles they drive their cars.
“Some
transportation experts have begun to take a keen interest in a vehicle
miles traveled charge or VMT – that fee for each mile of travel should
serve as an alternative to the motor fuels tax, and I think it will
eventually,” Price said last week during a discussion on "The Future of
Infrastructure Investment" held by the Atlantic Council's Global
Business and Economics Program, the Center for European Studies at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Delegation of the
European Union to the United States.
“This
revenue source has some serious privacy concerns when you think about
how it would be implemented, the collection cost issues, and there are a
number of issues involved in that kind of approach – but it obviously
would be an improvement on the fuels tax, and that may be where we go.”
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