More taxes ideas...

[Usually Lurkin]

mcsluggo, the last couple of posts are right on.
Here are your problems:

Originally Posted by mcsluggo

taxing fuel is the most economically efficient ... you run into problems (and bureaucracy) when you try to target these things... .

The government does not want economic efficiency. They skim the inefficiencies, and they definitely do not want to avoid the problem of bureaucracy. They are the bureaucracy!