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Posted: 1/23/2021 10:15:31 AM EDT
This is rather anger-inducing and frustrating. TL:DR - Pete Buttplug and the Xiden administration are looking into a "tax-per-mile" scheme since the requirement for fuel-efficient vehicles is causing Americans to burn less fuel, thereby paying less fuel taxes.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/incoming-transportation-sec-buttigieg-suggests-taxing-americans-amount-miles Incoming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has suggested taxing Americans for the number of miles they drive, a policy he endorsed as a Democratic presidential candidate. The Biden Administration is actively searching for ways to fund its ambitious $1 trillion infrastructure plan. View Quote |
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The government likes taxes and will punish everyone they can.
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Quoted: This is rather anger-inducing and frustrating. TL:DR - Pete Buttblug and the Xiden administration are looking into a "tax-per-mile" scheme since the requirement for fuel-efficient vehicles is causing Americans to burn less fuel, thereby paying less fuel taxes. https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/incoming-transportation-sec-buttigieg-suggests-taxing-americans-amount-miles Incoming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has suggested taxing Americans for the number of miles they drive, a policy he endorsed as a Democratic presidential candidate. The Biden Administration is actively searching for ways to fund its ambitious $1 trillion infrastructure plan. View Quote View Quote Fuckers just gave a trillion dollars or more away in that stimulus bill. |
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Actually this makes some sense. Fuel taxes are used to fund highway construction and maintenance. Since people are using less fuel, the revenue stream is decreasing. The model no longer works. This would be a more equitable. Right now the guy who has to drive a gas guzzler pickup truck gets screwed. The guy driving a Tesla doesn't pay anything, yet may drive many more highway miles.
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I'm glad I have a 2nd vehicle that doesn't have an onstar tracker.
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Quoted: Actually this makes some sense. Fuel taxes are used to fund highway construction and maintenance. Since people are using less fuel, the revenue stream is decreasing. The model no longer works. This would be a more equitable. Right now the guy who has to drive a gas guzzler pickup truck gets screwed. The guy driving a Tesla doesn't pay anything, yet may drive many more highway miles. View Quote Yup, and to make the most fair, all taxes assessed at time of fuel purchase will be eliminated!... |
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Quoted: Actually this makes some sense. Fuel taxes are used to fund highway construction and maintenance. Since people are using less fuel, the revenue stream is decreasing. The model no longer works. This would be a more equitable. Right now the guy who has to drive a gas guzzler pickup truck gets screwed. The guy driving a Tesla doesn't pay anything, yet may drive many more highway miles. View Quote The government at every level burns so much money they could rebuild every road in America and it wouldn’t even be a drop in the bucket. There is nothing about raising any tax that “makes sense”. |
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Things like this will be commonplace when a command economy replaces the capitalist economy we now have. Buckle your seatbelts, it’s going to be a rough ride.
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In a way something similar is already happening on a state level. I have to pay an extra fee something like 100 or 150 for my Tesla and wife’s Fusion Energi. The state wants to collect its road tax somehow. An additional kick in the nuts if we aren’t driving those I’ve got a diesel truck and she has a big passenger van. Both use a lot of fuel, therefore we pay a lot of state gas tax. They’re getting us either way. Now the feds want some too
ETA that fee is added to the yearly registration $150 for my electric and $50 for her plug in hybrid |
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Quoted: Actually this makes some sense. Fuel taxes are used to fund highway construction and maintenance. Since people are using less fuel, the revenue stream is decreasing. The model no longer works. This would be a more equitable. Right now the guy who has to drive a gas guzzler pickup truck gets screwed. The guy driving a Tesla doesn't pay anything, yet may drive many more highway miles. View Quote The problem is, they are keeping the gas tax and in fact are raising it while simultaneously applying this new tax to everyone regardless of vehicle power type. |
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Electric company here in NY urged everyone to use less electricity
So people used less electricity Power company charged everyone a surcharge for using less electricity to make up for lost revenue |
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Quoted: Electric company here in NY urged everyone to use less electricity So people used less electricity Power company charged everyone a surcharge for using less electricity to make up for lost revenue View Quote Just like a few years back when housing prices declined. The next year our county assessor increased the land value to make up the difference. |
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I'm actually in favor of "tax per mile". The people using the roads should pay for the usage.
Now with that said: they will have to abandon the fuel tax at the pump bullshit. Of course this will never happen, |
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Sounds like a good plan to further consolidate the power they get from large city populations.
Also, will they implement a plan to tax the internet usage of those at-home workers who hardly drive at all? |
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I’m already doing my part to cut down on fossil fuels. My BMW runs on full E85 because 600awhp is much more fun than 300.
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They will introduce a bill to make all federal highways easy pass and plate reader tolling, it's coming
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Quoted: Actually this makes some sense. Fuel taxes are used to fund highway construction and maintenance. Since people are using less fuel, the revenue stream is decreasing. The model no longer works. This would be a more equitable. Right now the guy who has to drive a gas guzzler pickup truck gets screwed. The guy driving a Tesla doesn't pay anything, yet may drive many more highway miles. View Quote They arent going to get rid of the normal gas tax they are just going to add a mileage tax to fuck everyone. |
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I have warned you about socialist car taxes. (I.e. $8 gas, 75% sales tax, 3-4k yearly road tax on american style cars)
Ironically over here it mostly affect poor POC and single mothers in the sense that they can't really run a car. Yet The bumpy stock/mean twatters choose to let the Socialists in. Oh the milage tax is done with a box you have to mount in your car. Not having said box with trigger systems. Sorry about that. |
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The fun part of this is that the fuel tax is going to nail the lower class workers hard. It won’t affect me much since I am working from home and maybe going through a tank of gas a month. But your poor food service and retail workers are going to get hit hard.
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Quoted: Actually this makes some sense. Fuel taxes are used to fund highway construction and maintenance. Since people are using less fuel, the revenue stream is decreasing. The model no longer works. This would be a more equitable. Right now the guy who has to drive a gas guzzler pickup truck gets screwed. The guy driving a Tesla doesn't pay anything, yet may drive many more highway miles. View Quote Ummm . . . is there an exemption from the "milage tax" if you don't have a "fuel efficient" vehicle? I'm guessing no. Double whammy. |
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They pulled this shit in Virginia years ago.
But a hybrid, pay more for the hybrid, then a tax for buying the vehicle and not using gas. They did away with it eventually but it speed the hypocrisy and stupidity of government. |
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Gee who could have seen this coming with how cigarette smoking and cigarette taxes were handled
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Quoted: Actually this makes some sense. Fuel taxes are used to fund highway construction and maintenance. Since people are using less fuel, the revenue stream is decreasing. The model no longer works. This would be a more equitable. Right now the guy who has to drive a gas guzzler pickup truck gets screwed. The guy driving a Tesla doesn't pay anything, yet may drive many more highway miles. View Quote It might make sense if it was tax per mile instead of per gallon. It will end up being both. |
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"I think all options need to be on the table, as you know, the [federal] gas tax has not been increased since 1993, and it has never been pegged to inflation, and it's one of the reasons why the current state of Highway Trust Fund is that there's more going out than coming in,"
Dumbass, watch your language. |
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Quoted: I'm actually in favor of "tax per mile". The people using the roads should pay for the usage. Now with that said: they will have to abandon the fuel tax at the pump bullshit. Of course this will never happen, View Quote How is that different than people who don't have kids but still have their property taxes pay for public schools. Even if someone doesn't drive much they still benefit from the roads. How else would your amazon packages get delivered? |
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pretty sure that Virginia charges a $45 extra tax for registration if your car gets 25+ mpg, Because you have not paid your share of fuel tax.
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As a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Buttigieg supported banning the sale of gas and diesel vehicles altogether in the United States by 2035. View Quote Snort. |
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Quoted: Just like a few years back when housing prices declined. The next year our county assessor increased the land value to make up the difference. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Electric company here in NY urged everyone to use less electricity So people used less electricity Power company charged everyone a surcharge for using less electricity to make up for lost revenue Just like a few years back when housing prices declined. The next year our county assessor increased the land value to make up the difference. Something is fishy about that. Can’t quite place a finger on it though... |
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Good, I hope they do it and the private sector finally invents the transporter just so Biden can fail at something else.
(the kind from The Fly, not Star Trek). |
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And you can hear the screams of prius and tesla drivers screaming in the distance.
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