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		refurb on Sept 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Virginia maps out optional per-mile road fee progr... Not priced into shipping, but equally borne by all tax payers. If all tax payers benefit through transportation of food and other essentials, that’s not really an externality? The people paying are the ones who benefit?

rocqua on Sept 9, 2021 [–]

It's an externality because the people who are paying aren't the people who are causing the damage.

This isn't so much unfair, but it does remove incentives for the shippers to cause less damage to the roads.

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