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If it costs about 6 cents to repair the damage caused by one car on one mile of road, and people presenty use (which damages) the roads as if they were free, they are using the road uneconomically. If the use of the road is more valuable than the 6 cents to the user, they will pay 6 cents and be getting something better than what they paid for. If they value the road use at 4 cents per mile, as they are doing something utterly pointless, like driving around for the hell of it, then they will be causing more damage than they are gaining from the road use, which is destructive. Charging 6 cents per mile would make it so that only the uses which are truly worth the damage caused to the road actually get a chance to damage the road.
It doesn't hurt the poor as badly as the present gas taxes and property taxes which increase the price they pay for rent and fuel. It does not aggravate the problem. The problem is presently being hidden by taxes, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That we will suddenly see it does not mean the problem has been made worse.