>>>They also looked at a scenario in which sales taxes collected from
>>>across O.C. would be used to pay for the toll lanes.
>
>That's the best they could do? Sales taxes are already regressive!
>
>Man, that's what passes for academic research these days?
>
>/jordan
You got in a hurry there. Here's what follows:
>In that case, they concluded, low-income earners would be paying
>millions of dollars in taxes for something they don't use. Here's
>the key passage from their paper: "Using sales taxes to fund
>roadways creates substantial savings to drivers by shifting some of
>the costs of driving from drivers to consumers at large, and in the
>process disproportionately favors the more affluent at the expense
>of the impoverished."