Posted on 03/26/2021 7:15:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is why we buy off road vehicles.
That’s precisely what it would have to be.
You would have to be tracked or keep record of every trip you make in order for this tax to work. That is not compatible with a free society to have to do that. It should not be a hassle to just drive up to the store to get a loaf of bread.
This should be a major campaign issue...but the infanticide vote in the Senate should have also been a big campaign issue and it wasn’t.
Because he’s familiar with Bosco Blvd and the Hershey Highway he’s qualified to be Transportation Sec? Damn!!😖🤮ðŸ˜
Here in Pennsylvania I believe the gas tax is about 58 cents a gallon. Adding this onto that would be a disaster.
Hope they go for it. We need every teamster member to break with their corrupt union and come over to the “right side”. This could be the issue that breaks the Teamsters as a Democrat Party stronghold and donor.
The cancellation of the ExCel Pipeline got us lots of union welders/workers.
A mileage-tax would also get us more of the lower economic class workers who can’t afford any more gasoline taxes as well as members of the middle class too.
The former failed mayor of Bendover, Indiana is Biden’s gift to the Republicans if they can see him as such.
Your sarcasm is duly noted, but please also note that the Democrats are removing the filibuster rule, so even those two Senate seats wouldn’t make a difference.
#55. Re I would call him an Ahole but he might take that as a compliment.
Actually he would say, “So you do love me”, now prove it!
“On the other hand, as I noted above, this would lead to a bloodbath in 2022.”
How quaint. Someone who think elections are still relevant.
No carbon monoxide.
“After a human breathes in Earth’s air (roughly 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen), he or she exhales a mixture of compounds similar to the air inhaled: 78 percent nitrogen, 16 percent oxygen, 0.09 percent argon, and four percent carbon dioxide.”
https://sciencing.com/chemical-composition-exhaled-air-human-lungs-11795.html
“Each time you purchase gasoline in Michigan, you’re paying a couple of road-user fees as well: the 18.7 cents per gallon state gas tax, and the 18.4 cents per gallon federal fuel tax. Whether gas costs $2 per gallon or $4 per gallon, the amount collected for those two taxes remains the same.”
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/RealityCheckMyth6_473561_7.pdf
They try this shit I am going to unhook my damned speedometer and pay with gas with only cash.
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Transponder or device that plugs into car test port (like the Progressive Insurance device that fried my car’s ECM)
“Your sarcasm is duly noted, but please also note that the Democrats are removing the filibuster rule, so even those two Senate seats wouldn’t make a difference.”
You do realize that if we had won either seat in Georgia, the Democrats wouldn’t have the votes needed to remove the filibuster. Or do you?
[ 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. ]
Get a pre-paid credit card with enough on it for a full tank in case the only place you need to fuel up at is a pay at pump only...
[ They try this shit I am going to unhook my damned speedometer and pay with gas with only cash.
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Transponder or device that plugs into car test port (like the Progressive Insurance device that fried my car’s ECM) ]
I refuse to plug in a car spy to save a few bucks, the insurance company can go F**k the hell off!
This will create a new cottage industry of mileage rollback specialists. Everything from transponder hack devices to plugins to the main computer to turn back the mileage. Having a car that costs you an arm and a leg in taxes will be treated like Prohibition.
My old 80s jeep Waggoner might be worth keeping. No electronics in there to plug anything into.
My 1986 Chevy S-10 seems to need a new speedometer cable. Hmmm!
I refuse to plug in a car spy to save a few bucks, the insurance company can go F**k the hell off!
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Not only did the effing device fry my Body Control Module, Progressive raised my insurance $50 a month when I removed it.
It’s like those remote kill switches installed in most cars if you make payments, especially from buy-here, pay-here places a vast majority of the urban poor had to use. If your FICO score is less than 650, that’s your only option in most cases.
I ripped mine out after getting laid off and they killed my car. I threw it on a passing train (with a long-term 12v battery)
Wont work if they use Singapore-style ERP gates. (Used on toll roads here). Don’t doubt buttplug won’t force installation on the interstates. He will.
You know what, let ‘em go for it. DC (and most any major city these days) may be directed by well-heeled lawyers and lobbyists, but it runs on the backs of men and women who often spend upwards of an hour on the road each day because the cost of living near the good parts of town with short commutes and lots of culture is too high. Those people adopted electric cars and car pools because it let them use HOV lanes. There are also millions of Americans, many I’m sure who voted Democrat, who are eager to stay working remote permanently. They will see the mileage tax as a really good reason to do so and put pressure on the companies and real estate lessors who want people back in the offices because they are wasting money renting empty buildinns that they also have to heat, cool, and insure.
Implementing a mileage tax is going to be a huge burden (do you get informed upon by your mechanic? Do you attest to driving X miles on your taxes? Are they going to push for odometer interlock devices on all vehicles?)
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