putting more taxes on gas could help the environment. If less people were driving on the roads it would help with the pollution. Putting more taxes on gas would lower the demand of gas. "the tax would also encourage people to cycle or walk to work, promoting a healthy lifestyle." ( Crystal Lombardo futureofworking.com) If people find a eco-friendly ways to help the environment there would be less pollution and carbon emissions going into the atmosphere.
Keeping the taxes the same could help with jobs and employment. "this would mean that a significant number of workers would lose their jobs, causing unemployment rates to shoot to the roof." (Crystal Lombardo futureofworking.com). It might help the environment but people could have a hard time getting to work and lose they job for being late to their jobs. If people can't afford cars it would affect people making money and buying things to survive. It would hurt companies if people aren't buying things because people can't afford it.
I don't think there should be more taxes on gas. The government might make more money from the taxes, but if people can't afford a car it can raise unemployment. It also will hurt the middle class because gas would dramatically increase and not everybody in the middle class can afford to pay more for gas.
There are other things that the government would have to help put in place for people if the taxes were raised. To properly deal with the issue of expense and not being able to afford a car just due to gas prices (shouldn't be too much of a dramatic change. Just enough to get more money fix different things like roads), the government would have to supply people with better public transportation opportunities. There would also be people who would make cuts on other goods. These people would have to actually watch how much they are driving, and people would have to start driving only when needed. A change like this would have to be very gradual, and it be a big hurdle for many people, but I believe that this could help improve road safety and many other things here in the US.
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