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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] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They are taxed a lot. Are they taxed to the fourth power of axel weight? Not even close.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Based on your math, you'd be charging almost $2 million per year per truck. With that much money, you'd be building an entire nations worth of brand new infrastructure several times over each year.