Southern good roads . ill pay both poll and property tax forgood roads work, but these could well afford to do soen account of the increased value of their property. Still another supplementary source of revenue forgood roads construction may be had by a state andcounty by taxing all vehicles that use the public have started this movement by placing a special taxi>n all vehicles using the public road, because all in-jure the road and increase the c :ist of its great deal of stress has been laiil on tiie great de-struction to a road by the automobile. While this istrue,
Southern good roads . ill pay both poll and property tax forgood roads work, but these could well afford to do soen account of the increased value of their property. Still another supplementary source of revenue forgood roads construction may be had by a state andcounty by taxing all vehicles that use the public have started this movement by placing a special taxi>n all vehicles using the public road, because all in-jure the road and increase the c :ist of its great deal of stress has been laiil on tiie great de-struction to a road by the automobile. While this istrue, it is not the automobile alone that causes the dam-age; it is a combination of iron tired wagons and theautomobile. The automobiles alone, rim at a moderatespeed, would cause but little damage to our publicroads; but tiie cutting and grinding influence of theiron tires and the suction of the tires of the automo-bile are wliat cause the great damage when these twoclasses of vehicles use the same road. As all vcliicles. Sand Clay Road. Franklinton Township, Franklin County, N. C, showing re-location, old road to the right over the hill are partly for the damage to our puljlicroads. I believe all vehicles using them should be tax-ed for their maintenance. For vehicles there should bea slidino- scale, graduated not only according to theload a wagon will carrj- but also graduated according tothe kind of tire that the vehicle has, thus, a buggy withrubber tires would be taxed the lowest, while a wagoncapable of hauling two or more tons, with a very nar-row tire wheel, will be taxed the highest. Automobilesshould be taxed according to their hoi-se power; as,for instance, $10 a year for a twenty luirse power ma-cliine, and 50 cent per year for each additional horsepower. Of the revenue raised in this way, on autiuiio-iules and other vehicles, one half of the ammmt shouldgo to the county in which the owner of the vehicle re-sides to be used in the maintenance of that coiin
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