Message from Herman Cain's "We're Not Stupid bus" The repeal of fuel taxes will never happen. This will be a new tax and America is Taxed Enough Already.
Posted on 12/29/2014 3:44:05 PM PST by TurboZamboni
This policy brief focuses on the challenge of developing a viable, user-friendly, per-mile charging system to replace fuel taxes for the nation's major highways. In doing so, it outlines 10 reasons why per-mile tolling is a better highway user fee than fuel taxes. Reason 1: Per-mile tolling is a direct, rather than indirect, user fee. Motorists would pay for the amount of service they received; they would pay providers directly for providing that service; and they would know exactly how much they were paying and what they were getting for it. Reason 2: Per-mile tolling is a sustainable long-term funding source for long-term infrastructure, which does not depend on the energy source used to propel the vehicles. Its transparency should help rebuild trust in the highway funding system. Reason 3: Per-mile tolls can be tailored to the cost of each road and bridge, rather than being averaged across all types of roads, from neighborhood streets to massive Interstates; this ensures adequate funding for major highway projects like Interstate reconstruction and modernization.
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Same list was said of fuel fees. We found everything usually goes into a general fund and therefore is NOT dedicated to roadways.
That said, in Colorado CDOT is funded using as taxes. Probably one of the few States that do that.
this is implemented with sensors detecting your plate and GoodToGo card. You buy card recharge online.
As to monitoring, well, it is up to voters to see to it that the local authorities collect only the number of validly billable miles, sans the GPS or other locational data.
“The Government doesn’t need to know how many miles I drive each year.”
And, therefore, have say over how much I drive or where.
I’m on a private road and I pay all of the upkeep for the road. I should therefore get a rebate. Or better, a grant.
Not much thinking done here,.
What about buying gas where they still charge fuel tax and then get charged mileage tax as well or toll like on turnpikes? clearly fuel tax is better as most of the fuel you buy get used driving on roads and so it gets fair as governments build {pay for} most of the roads and collect taxes so it goes in the same pocket
Message from Herman Cain's "We're Not Stupid bus" The repeal of fuel taxes will never happen. This will be a new tax and America is Taxed Enough Already.
They would add the per-mile tolling and keep the gas tax. Lets not kid ourselves.
I have a better idea. Cut the EBT cards, welfare, and Section 8 housing. Use that money to repair the roads.
Tolls suck - I have a choice when traveling to lower Michigan from Upper Michigan - Mackinac Bridge with Toll - 4.00 or through Chicagoland. I hate the Chicago tollways. Always construction. The mackinac Bridge is being painted. Improved highways in Illinois what a joke on the tollway. I have tried the US 41 through Downtown Chicago 94, not much better but no toll I-80 tollway. Now I go through northern wisconsin and Minnesots no tollways excellent roads. I have been through the tollway in Oklahoma - what a nightmare.
this will lead to realtime car monitoring. no way.
t won’t go for roads i drive on. my main road in my neighborhood is like driving in fallujah, in 18 years it has not been repaved and it’s falling apart.
gasoline taxes are self regulating too. just because a price dips doewn’t mean it won’t go back up if the middle east gets hotter.
govt can go f@ck itself if it thinks they are going to know how much i drive. this will lead to future penalties. t will lead to realtime collection devices. itwill lead to tiered taxes, if you drive a nicer car, if you make too much, etc.
I’ve never seen a tax go away. Many of the taxes are local and all counties and cities will not agree to end their feed trough. Many will increase their taxes because the price of gas will drop. They’ll reason that people are used to paying x for gas and x-.18 will be a good deal.
It’s like sales tax vs. income tax. For years politicians tried to tell us that if we agreed to a low, reasonable, fair income tax that they’d do away with sales taxes. Didn’t work.
“fairness”
enough reason not to finish the column
I am trapped in CT for various reasons. Eventually, I will get an opportunity to flee this state. All one has to do is look at their property taxes in comparison to a state such as North Carolina, and ask themselves “if N.C. can pay for their government service on 1/4 of the property taxes I pay in CT, why can’t CT”?
Governments like it bc it requires monitoring of your vehicle.
It also taxes rural people more .
That is all
Oh, wait: There's nearly a direct correlation between vehicle weight and fuel efficiency. So, that what we already have.
Never mind. :-)
My childhood pal from Danbury, moved to NC in 2007, he has never looked back !
yeah, when the Feds get involved, lotta bad things happen...Davis Bacon, massive corruption, inefficiency....
“Per-mile tolling is a sustainable long-term funding source for long-term infrastructure, which does not depend on the energy source used to propel the vehicles. Its transparency should help rebuild trust in the highway funding system.”
Ha ha ha ha ha. Good joke. Until congress raids the funds to pay for social welfare programs or union pensions.
A scam at least a dozen years in the making. It is the Transportation Trust fund and the Congress that controls it or doesn’t control it that needs to be held to account, not states eagerly bailing out those responsible at the Federal level
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