The old car tabs were flat out wrong and that's why I voted for the change. What does the value of your vehicle have to do with how much you use the roads?
The good thing about a state income tax, if they remove the sales tax which the proposed plan does not do, would be that communities living near the states borders can no longer dodge paying their share by shopping in another state or country. But it is funny that Gates Sr is pushing this. How much would his son, the richest man in the world, pay? His salary is nominal. So add a capital gains tax?