They've tried to get a wheel tax in our county a few times. It always goes down in flames. I have proposed a tax on car farmers. You know, the people who let abandoned cars rot in the field in the hopes that new car plants will grow.
Seriously though. Why not a $25.00 tax per visible abandoned car? It'd give people motivation to have it hauled off for recycling.
Anyway. Not to derail.
One of our local state parks, Rocky Fork State Park, has a 10mph speed limit on it's trails. The trails are actually rocky roads going through the hills. It is a long climb going up to a place called Hidden Lake. The descent, at 10 mph, is ridiculously slow. In a meeting that I had with the park ranger about looking for alternate bikepacking routes through park to get across the ridge to North Carolina, I asked about the speed limit. He said that they needed a speed limit and it was just an arbitrary number that they pulled out of a hat. He advised, use good judgement and slow down around hikers.Real cool guy.