Indeed :-)
> If it is redistribution of income, then indeed regressive
> taxation is bad.
It seemed to me (from the quip you made earlier that you clipped out above) that your goal was to "make car users pay" -- that sounds like a lousy policy objective ... but I extrapolated that your position would be: cars suck, I don't have one, let's all ride fuel cell busses and live in the center of a (Western) European city.
> But if this function is more efficient - or rational, or
> environmentally friendly if you will - pricing of public goods
> to change their use patterns ...
I think we've been over this N times, but you cannot "change their use patterns" without supplying an alternative. You can't just unilaterally raise the cost of driving a car in order to get people to bend to your will; what you'll accomplish is extra hardship on the low end and "simple" political anger on the top end.
/jordan