... tax2 for the infrastructural system as it is spent for it. Additionally trains and buses would be more overcrowded. Not to think about that this idea would cost all German citizens a lot of extra money. Firstly, German inhabitants already pay three times as much tax2 as is spent for repairing the streets. When someone buys a car, he knows that this can be very expensive. The owner needs to pay value-added tax (VAT) when he buys the vehicle. Right now the VAT makes sixteen percent of the price. After that, money has to be spend on motor-vehicle-tax, insurance and when he or she drives a lot, it has to be paid for gas. If the car owner buys one litre of gasoline then 65.503 cent plus sixteen percent VAT of the whole amount flows into the treasury. This is a very high percentage. In April 2004 the percentage was ...

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