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A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. (slate.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There's no need to have the tax be the exact same for every vehicle class. Proper long haul trucks have to be heavy, private cars do not.

The US already has 8 or 10 different vehicle classes defined by weight, the lightest being 6000lbs (which is still ridiculously high, my VW Up is 2200lbs).