Secret pilot plan to charge drivers by the MILE is hidden in Biden's $1.2trillion infrastructure bill

Daily Mail ^ | Elizabeth Elkind, Geoff Earle

[I want the USA back]

Not secret any more. But of course the media will deliberately and intentionally NOT tell the brain-dead American public.

[Kickass Conservative]

Nothing in that Monstrosity of a Bill was “hidden”.

What a cop out.

[Dilbert San Diego]

It will not replace gas taxes. It will be over and above the current federal gas tax we already pay.

[Openurmind]

Yep. And taxes on offroad fuel. and much more hidden crap.

[Mr. Rabbit]

Rent on your own house and taxi fare on your own car. We owe Britain an apology for 1776. What was the point?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Where are all the GOP fluffers who insisted we had to keep re-electing Assistant Democrats?

[G Larry]

Ha!

3 of our 4 cars have no GPS.

Cell phones don't count because it would record passenger travel.

[Mouton]

How many lay abouts in the cities drive cars? How about we tax each subway ride??

[The Antiyuppie]

I’m OK with this, electric vehicles should pay their fair share. And this will be done instead of the federal gasoline tax, right? RIGHT???

[mewzilla]

Deep State has a mad-on for the red bits...

For freedom of movement...

For freedom.

[Bernard]

The DOT would calculate drivers' payments quarterly.

So poor people would have to make a payment every quarter to the government. Sounds like a plan. Except that would require that they have a car new enough to have the special tracker equipment loaded on their vehicle. Cash For Clunkers Reborn!!!

[AnthonySoprano]

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The bill is full of poison pills.

The GOP sold us out.

[pepsi_junkie]

American drivers could soon trade paying taxes on gas at the pump for owing the government annual 'per-mile user fees,'

There won't be any trading going on. Gas taxes are imposed by the states, they won't go away. We'll just get both.

[livius]

Too true.

The other thing nobody is asking is exactly how they are going to collect the data on your daily travel.

[Alberta's Child]

For what it's worth, Congress has adopted transportation/highway bills with all kinds of pilot projects like this in the past. Very few of the pilots ever result in any actual implementation in the near future. A perfect case in point has been the ongoing effort by the trucking industry to increase size and weight limits on the U.S. highway system. That issue has been studied to death, and has gone nowhere.

The biggest hurdle to a "mileage tax" on any geographic scale is going to be the enormous cost of collecting the revenue. The fuel tax has a number of major flaws that are starting to become obvious over time, but one of the most attractive features of that tax is that the administrative costs associated with it are miniscule. From what I understand, the fuel taxes are only paid to the government by fewer than a dozen major fuel wholesalers in the entire country. For a "mileage tax," on the other hand, I've seen estimates that the cost of collecting the taxes would be something on the order of 20% of the revenue generated by the tax.

[livius]

They’ll make you have some kind of device to record your travel. Don’t worry, they’ll take care of it.

[L,TOWM]

Well, that goes without saying... and them saying that there is NO WAY IN HELL THAT WOULD HAPPEN pretty much is the tell that when it does happen, it is feature and not a bug.

[brownsfan]

I am nearly retired, don’t drive much. For those conservatives this hurts, I feel for you. But I will enjoy hearing the cries of Biden voters as they get stung hard.

[lonestar]

I was wondering if this isn’t double taxation.