Posted on 03/26/2021 7:15:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With the Biden administration’s unprecedented levels of spending just getting started, new ways to raise tax revenue to the government are beginning to be floated. We’ve already seen the proposition of raising some of the top marginal tax rates, increasing the corporate tax rate, and eliminating deductions as part of a broader “infrastructure” bill, which is really just a nearly $5 trillion slush fund of liberal wants.
In an attempt to further pay for their desired monstrosity, Biden’s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, has a tax idea that isn’t going to go over well. Namely, he thinks that a mileage tax, which would tax you for every mile you drive on a public road, shows a lot of “promise.”
I can’t think of a broader, more regressive tax than a mileage tax. It’s the working class that does the lion’s share of driving on our roads, mainly because they don’t have jobs that allow them to work remotely. This would also kill truck drivers, which would mean the prices of consumer goods would skyrocket. Further, the bureaucratic processes that would need to be created in order to keep track of everyone’s mileage usage are mind-boggling to think about. In short, how exactly does this idea show any promise at all?
On the other hand, as I noted above, this would lead to a bloodbath in 2022. There is no way most Americans are going to be happy about getting a new tax bill that punishes them for attempting to be productive. And we all know that this will simply be stacked on top of the existing gas tax. Democrats never simplify the tax structure, they only stack more and more on top of it.
The surest way to ensure Republicans take back the House and Senate in a year and a half is for Biden to push this past the theoretical stage. But arrogance is a funny thing, and the Democrats are very emboldened right now, thus all the talk of blowing up the filibuster. They wouldn’t need to do that to pass a mileage tax, though, as it can be done through reconciliation.
I’m skeptical that happens, but we’ll see if they are dumb enough to try.
Nice way to start tracking you everywhere you go !
Someone tell that stupid fudge packer we already have a GAS TAX that covers road maintenance etc.
They try this shit I am going to unhook my damned speedometer and pay with gas with only cash.
How long before we have the breath tax?
So are slow moving, dimwitted degenerate Americans who say “Biden is doing an good to excellent job” in polls now going to be miffed? Probably just grumbling to coworkers and friends and that’s all.
Don’t drive much or you won’t be able to pay your slavery reparations money. Remember that, Americans.
Aren’t all roads that actually go anywhere (except to a private residence) ‘public’?
Yes.
Plus places like Michigan government likes the gas prices going up because they also charge a sales tax on the sale of each gallon.
Money rolling in for Whitmer’s crew. She loves every minute of it.
Paying for gas only with cash is a pretty good idea.
Our cards have been ‘raided’ several times, and the only thing we could trace it to was the use of a card at a gas station. (The bad dudes have gizmos that ‘skim’ your info at gas stations.)
We’re only using cash at gas stations, now.
What if you spend a lot of time off road drag racing and chasing cars off the road so they run tumbling side over side down a hill into a gasoline tanker truck and burst into flames as on several ChiPs TV series episodes? All that is off road and not taxed on the public road.
Show me in the Constitution where the federal government has the right to charge a mileage tax.
To be honest, I could see this coming a mile away. As for food consumption, it’s just a calorie away. Beer? By the ounce.
RE: Aren’t all roads that actually go anywhere (except to a private residence) ‘public’?
Yep. Now you get what’s cooking in gay Pete’s dastardly mind.
Many of the local gas stations that offer non-alcoholic gas give a 5 or 10 cent discount for ca$h.
So, more trips to the Bank ATM.
Well, I don’t participate in such exciting stuff.
If you do, tell us all about it :-)
Three words, one of them a definite article: “The general welfare.”
RE: Nice way to start tracking you everywhere you go !
I would not be surprised to see the family members of Dems investing in companies that develop these tracking software.
You can get cash at the grocery store, too.
You’re going there anyway...
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