In America personal vehicles are a necessity unless you live in the core of a city with adequate public transit of which there are only a handful.
They are a necessity if you live in a small town, the suburbs, a rural area, an area with extreme weather, have a family with young children, etc.
* In the US, 93% of households have access to a personal vehicle [0].
* 77.3% of respondents think owning a car is necessary [0]
If we increase taxes on personal vehicles it would disproportionately impact lower income workers who can barely afford to get by as it is. Forcing a single mom on a low income such that she could no longer afford to drive would tax her 10’s of hours every week resulting in untold hardship. It would be a disaster.
What you are advocating would only work if we invested trillions of dollars in transit infrastructure.
Taxation or more debt isn’t enough to pay for that transformation without absolutely destroying the economy and the quality of life of hundreds of millions of Americans.
Personal vehicles are only a luxury if you live in a fantasy.
