Opinion: Reasons to Consider a Per-Mile Road Tax

Opinion: Reasons to Consider a Per-Mile Road Tax. Michael D. Meyer, who was the director of Transportation Planning and Development for Massachusetts in the 80’s and a civil engineering prof at MIT, argues that the U.S. must move to a different way of funding its roads system. “This concept is based on the time-honored economic principle of user fees: The user pays for the amount of a resource being consumed. The more one uses the road network, the more one should pay.” [CNN]