On the roads again

We need to treat gasoline more like milk.

When the price for a gallon of milk goes up, the amount of sales tax we pay on that milk likewise goes up.

The sales tax is based on the dollar size of a retail transaction, not the volume or weight of a product.

Thus the sales tax protects and fortifies state government's vital general revenue fund, which pays for schools and prisons and human services. It manages to keep a reliable sum of tax money flowing to the general treasury even if people despair of higher milk prices and opt for dryer cereal.

So we have a severe highway funding problem in the state, mainly because we tax gasoline on volume solely and price not at all.