PING!
Bullsh1t.
This is about tracking people.
Resist we much. /sharpton
Gasoline tax would go a long way toward covering highways, if government didn’t steal those funds to use on their inner city pet projects.
Then they push tolls, additional gas taxes, whatever else they can come up with.
Just say no citizens!
No, Toll Authorities are horrible shepherds of the funds they collect. They are constantly building and rebuilding toll booths because they are flush with cash, become a haven for failed politicians, their contracting practices are suspect, and there is little accountability to the public. Have you ever heard of tolls being lowered? Compare what Orange County, Florida does for their stretch of Route 528 “the Beach Line” and their toll infrastructure versus Brevard County where they pulled down the toll booths and do just as good a job of maintaining the highway as does the toll authority. Forget the theory, look at reality.
The commies at “The Hill” never met a tax they didn’t like.
A tax by any other name.
gas tax revenue is already a ‘mileage’ fee. The more mileage you drive, the more you fill up and the more gas taxes you pay. But you just know, by renaming the revenue a ‘mileage fee’ means it will go up more than you’re paying now in gas taxes because they’ll need to hire staff to read all those odometers.
I thought the Magic Negro's "Stimulus 1" Was supposed to take care of all that.
When was that? 2009?
The govt admitting it cannot properly administer revenue.
BS if politicians have access to the money it will never be spent correctly- or more bluntly it will be squandered.
However if they persist with this line- they need to remove all taxes on petroleum products
Hell no. Mileage fees put the screws to commuters. Any politician who backs that statist approach will never get my support.
And how many people here feel confident that any funds raised in this fashion will actually go to maintaining the roads, vs. being used to pay for overpriced state employee union labor, or worse, being used in general funds.
That is, when the funds aren’t actually being used by the Federal Government as a carrot to coerce states into toeing the line on things like Common Care, etc.
In watching a nearby state and it’s road building, it can take TWENTY YEARS to get forty miles of road built.
If they decide to put in a Toll Road, that same forty miles can be in in five years.
The bi-state authority that collects tolls on four Delaware River bridges in southern New Jersey wasted millions of dollars on lavish perks, approved projects without public input and issued no-bid contracts to firms connected to politicians, according to a report released in 2012.
The investigation into the Delaware River Port Authority conducted by New Jersey’s state comptroller found that poor oversight led to the mismanagement of toll payer money for years, even as the cost of bridge crossings increase every year.
In the 4 intervening years absolutely nothing has changed!
The Delaware River Port Authority tries to hide how much they take in each year but at $5 per car it has to be hundreds of millions each quarter. When they first started collecting 25 cents per car 60 or so years ago they said in 10 or 15 years the bridges would be paid for. Yeah right! There is no accounting for the money and very little maintenance on the bridges. Politicians line their pockets and families and friends are well taken care of. I know they contribute over half of the money taken in to many liberal causes that have absolutely NOTHING to do with maintaining the bridges and roads.
This is a disgrace that I am sure occurs in every state and I hope President Trump will put a stop to ALL political corruption.
What a crock. This is two-pronged wrong. First, they will only add this tax to that already existing. Second, they want info and control. What a crock...warmed and overflowing. Tyrants.
and, it not saying that they would eliminate the gas taxes, very prohibitive as they already are, but would need that plus all the mileage taxation...