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Re:Taxing Uber and Lyft rides is L.A's latest plan to free u... by mikeyouse on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @07:14PM (#19259716)
Without much better data the best you can say is that Ubers are benefitting from externalities at a rate lower than other, heavier vehicles. It's still likely they aren't paying their fair share.
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Re:Taxing Uber and Lyft rides is L.A's latest plan to free u... by SilasX on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @07:22PM (#19259761)
A vehicle twice as heavy per axle is doing 16x the damage. Unless the taxes on delivery vehicles scale like that, a sedan is subsidizing the costs.
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Re:Taxing Uber and Lyft rides is L.A's latest plan to free u... by vkou on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:16PM (#19260026)
A road that's never driven on suffers damage from the elements, and the passage of time.

A truck does more damage then a car? Great. But there's an upfront road maintenance (not to mention construction) cost that you have to pay, regardless of who uses the road. Gas taxes do not come close to capturing that.

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