If half of drivers would disappear from the roads due to high taxes (talls or gas) - the remaining drivers would have better driving experience due to smaller traffic jam. So you are wrong. Taxes may improve driving experience.
> redistributes suffering to different forms
This could be a positive effect by itself. If your time is more valuable - you pay for it with your money. For other people - their money is more valuable than time, so they pay with their time (riding a train/bus instead of driving their own car).
> It doesn't do anything to REDUCE suffering.
You are wrong again. Your suffering from loosing $2K/year on extra tolls -- are much lower than suffering [from loosing the same $2k/year] of a senior citizen who lives on $1300/mo pension.
The same goes in reverse: that senior citizen does not suffer than much from waiting for the bus and wasting extra 2 hours per day -- as you do [from wasting 2 hours per day].
The redistribution, actually, reduces suffering.
But redistribution - is not the only positive effect. Collected taxes allow to build more roads.
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If half of drivers would disappear from the roads due to high taxes (talls or gas) - the remaining drivers would have better driving experience due to smaller traffic jam.
So you are wrong. Taxes may improve driving experience.
> redistributes suffering to different forms
This could be a positive effect by itself.
If your time is more valuable - you pay for it with your money.
For other people - their money is more valuable than time, so they pay with their time (riding a train/bus instead of driving their own car).
> It doesn't do anything to REDUCE suffering.
You are wrong again.
Your suffering from loosing $2K/year on extra tolls -- are much lower than suffering [from loosing the same $2k/year] of a senior citizen who lives on $1300/mo pension.
The same goes in reverse: that senior citizen does not suffer than much from waiting for the bus and wasting extra 2 hours per day -- as you do [from wasting 2 hours per day].
The redistribution, actually, reduces suffering.
But redistribution - is not the only positive effect.
Collected taxes allow to build more roads.