I just wanted to take the opportunity to respond to something that Mr. Sullivan was saying.
I think he correctly pointed out that smaller municipalities tend not to have public transit and therefore don't absorb those costs. I don't think there is an inequity, though, because there are additional costs associated with a small municipality that are not in place for a larger one.
For example, it costs roughly $1 million for a kilometre of pavement. There are far fewer taxpayers along that kilometre, and therefore the per capita cost of a stretch of roadway is much more expensive in a borough community. The same is true for any form of piping, electrical lines, and related infrastructure. The distances that snowplows have to travel between homes are much greater. As a result, the per capita cost of a lot of these same things are much higher in rural communities than they are in highly densified big cities.
I would just like to put that on the record to counter any notion that perhaps municipalities of a smaller population have a funding advantage under the gas tax system. In fact they do not.
I would invite any comments you might have.