To Tax or Not to Tax

There is trouble brewing in Virginia. People want to improve their and expand their roads. But no one seems to agree how to pay for it. Find already existing money (which would imply to me, taking it from some other program), or a new tax.

Now, the article, as far as I could tell, did not indicate what type of tax it would be. An income tax? That would be one way, but then you are taxing those that don't use the roads, just as much as those that do. A gas tax would mean that those that drive more would pay more into the system, but since driving more means using the roads more, it seems to make sense. Of course it is not a perfect calculation of road usage (the person in the Prius would put less into the system than the person in the SUV that logs just as many miles), but that would be what some of us call the idiot tax.

N.Va. Leaders Lack Consensus on Tax - washingtonpost.com