Why pay for you to drive to work? Are you working while driving?
You're carrying out an activity solely for the benefit of the employer that you wouldn't be doing otherwise and you're unable to use the time for your own activity - you are working.
I'm fairly sure the $80-100k salary you make at the office is perfectly fine... the $9 a day ($0.45/mile, 30 miles) you make on the drive to work isn't going to add a whole lot.
Those who live closer or work remotely don't have these costs.
If you assume that there are 252 working days in a year, then your commute costs you $2268 annually, which you have to pay after tax. Many people pay significantly more for commuting, and earn less than $80k.
If you didn't commute daily then you might not need a car at all, or could reduce the number of cars in the household.
For example the following figures published for the UK, where most people commute using public transport:
https://ifamagazine.com/averag...
These costs are paid from people's post-tax salary and the tax rates there are higher than the US.
Another goal should be to make companies put proper thought into where they locate their premises if they need one. Currently they will just gravitate towards the business districts where there are lots of offices but usually very little in the way of affordable housing and extremely congested travel routes at peak times. They don't care about the high cost of housing or the high cost (both time/money) of commuting because that becomes the individual employee's problem. If you make it the company's problem then they will start doing something about it.