Pete Buttigieg Touts Plan to Tax Americans for Every Mile They Drive

NN ^ | 03-27-21 | Jay Greenberg

[McQ444]

Joe Biden's Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has caused outrage among voters by touting a plan to tax Americans for every mile they drive. The Biden administration is considering taxing motorists by the mile to fund their $3 trillion climate-friendly "green" infrastructure plans.

[escapefromboston]

Gas is already taxed

[Toespi]

These clowns just don’t know when enough is enough.

[monkeyshine]

As I said on another thread:
It is about time that bicyclists pay their fair share!

[Migraine]

“What, me worry?”

[joma89]

We have a criminal thieving government.

[Rurudyne]

Tax progressivism ... Left wingers want more government so they pay more for it.

[high info voter]

It’s called “screw hard working American citizens out of their money to pay for the flood of illegals the Democrats invited into America”....and lets to make our nation a S-Hole!

[wny]

Yet another piece of the left’s plan to destroy the middle class as well as the suburbs and rural areas. Their constituents, blue-city dwellers won’t pay this. They’re trying to destroy small business owners in favor of their corporate donors, now tax the hell out of their enemies - and yes, we are their enemies - and further limit freedoms.

[ScubaDiver]

Can anyone else think of another ‘behavior’ tax? I honestly cannot. We have a tax on the purchase of things and we have a tax on income. But, we haven’t - that I can remember - ever taxed behavior.

I guess the Obamacare tax came close. But, Roberts said that wasn’t a tax, right?

If they can tax the miles you drive, they can tax anything you do. How is this not a burden on the right to move freely?

[Texas Eagle]

We’re already taxed for every mile we drive. If Pete paid for his own gas he’d know that.

[Puppage]

EXACTLY

[Texas Eagle]

DemonicRATS are going to get that “stimulus” money back one way or another.

[econjack]

Exactly. Perhaps we should ask how the money’s being spent now before they ask for more.

[SecondAmendment]

> Can anyone else think of another ‘behavior’ tax?

Sin or vice taxes are very common, e.g. distilled spirits and tobacco.

[neverevergiveup]

They only way they can do this is to keep track of your odometer, OR GPS track you. To do either of those would be Soviet level government intrusion, plain and simple. But then, many of them admire and want Soviet-type government - as long as they're the ones in power.

[Vaquero]

How much mileage up your @zz there buttboy. Tax that.

[TBP]

Any excuse to steal more of our money. “The power to tax is the power to destroy.”

[robel]

The democrats have a problem. You have their money. They need a way to get it.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Maybe the productive people of the country should stage a general strike. Just shut the sucker down until Washington starts to get it.