I think increasing the payroll tax is a mistake. People who don’t own a car should actually be rewarded because they pollute far less, they don’t disable workers, they don’t require traffic police, they don’t emit CO2…
I would replace the payroll tax with a weight tax on huge SUVs.
“per-mile charge for electric vehicles” means GPS/license plate tracking of all cars. That’s the only way to determine the number of miles driven in state. Of course they could simply charge you for all miles if your car is registered in Oregon but then cars not registered in Oregon wouldn’t pay anything even if they drove exclusively in Oregon.