AT: Coercion—Shift The alt is impossible—lack of gas taxes just means it comes from other, more coercive sources. Wachs 2003 (Martin, “A dozen reasons for raising gas taxes”, Research Reports, Institute of Transportation Studies (UCB), UC Berkeley, ) Reluctance to increase gasoline taxes does not mean that consumers are going to pay less federal and state Declining revenue from gasoline taxes, means that money to for transportation. coupled with continually rising costs, support transportation infrastructure has to come from other sources. would prefer not Like everyone else, I to pay more in taxes. But, declining fuel tax revenue leads to increases in alternative forms of taxation, which I believe are inferior to fuel taxes.
AT: Coercion—Shift The alt is impossible—lack of gas taxes just means it comes from other, more coercive sources. Wachs 2003 (Martin, “A dozen reasons for raising gas taxes”, Research Reports, Institute of Transportation Studies (UCB), UC Berkeley, ) Reluctance to increase federal and state gasoline taxes does not mean that consumers are going to pay less for transportation. Declining revenue from gasoline taxes, coupled with continually rising costs, means that money to support transportation infrastructure has to come from other sources. Like everyone else, I would prefer not to pay more in taxes. But, declining fuel tax revenue leads to increases in alternative forms of taxation, which I believe are inferior to fuel taxes.
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