Poor Ireland. We loved you so and now you are DEAD!
It is like getting people to quit smoking and then complaining you wont get the cigarette taxes anymore (which is EXACTLY what happened in California).
So then , have they found a downside to electric cars? And that downside is they don’t pay gas taxes?
But the electric cars are using a heck of a lot more electricity to recharge. Is electricity taxed?
QUIZ FOR THE DAY: Name any tax that has been completely abolished.
LOL. So for all you do-gooder liberal environmentalists who bought expensive electric cars, it doesn’t matter. You’re going to be taxed just as much as the redneck with a 20 year old pick up truck.
This was inevitable. The Welfare State needs tax money. The goal isn’t to make you more fuel efficient. The goal is to control you and take your money. If you drive a car I’ll tax the street . . . . .
Of course, GPS will be employed, which will invade privacy like nothing else.
Libtards want your money; they’ll find a way to take it.
“...rather than...” ?
Wanna bet they end up with BOTH?
In fact, tax based on mileage may happen, but only for electric cars. It’ll probably be around 15 to 20 cents per mile.
In the U.S., you will continue to pay the excise tax on gasoline and diesel...and pay the VMT tax also.
If you love doing your taxes, you will love doing the paperwork to pay your Vehicles Mile Traveled tax.
Ping.
Will motorcycles be charged the same rate?
Will the GPS be on the tag?
Paying by miles driven requires either a more personally invasive government and less human Liberty than paying fuel taxes, or an unfair tax that would hit every driver with the same amount, regardless of how many miles they drove, based on some “expert” idea of the average miles a year folks had driven the year before. Without such an unffair use of an average miles, it requires mechanisms for the government to be able to “know” the miles driven for each vehicle.
It would be safer to human Liberty to just increase the fuel tax as fuel efficiency increases. If the tax increase is not greater than the increase in fuel efficiency, a motorist’s annual fuel tax paid will not increase either - on average.
The equal problem is the use of the fuel taxes, which no longer gets restricted to the roads used by the motorists that pay the fuel taxes. “Mass transit” and all kinds of other things take their cut of the fuel taxes, and then the politicians yell that their accounts for bulding and fixing the roads are in deficit. If the use of the fuel tax funds were restricted to the roads and the states did a superior job of priortizing how the funds are used, there would be less concern about the fuel tax rates alone. (yes, I’m speaking from a U.S. stand point)
That’s going to raise some ire!
position tracking devices required for every car ?