Posted on 08/10/2021 10:27:01 AM PDT by rickmichaels
American drivers could soon trade paying taxes on gas at the pump for owing the government annual 'per-mile user fees,' under a new pilot program recently passed by the Senate in Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal.
The bill passed a Senate vote on Tuesday and will go on to the House of Representatives.
The massive deal puts $125 million toward exploring the possibility of a federal vehicle miles traveled tax (VMT) by funding the launch of federal, state and local VMT pilot programs.
It gives Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg the ability to award grants to local and regional entities 'to carry out pilot projects' of the VMT tax.
Both everyday drivers and commercial freight drivers from all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico would have to be enrolled in the voluntary program, the bill text reads.
The DOT would calculate drivers' payments quarterly.
It also calls on the DOT secretary to carry out a public awareness campaign on per-mile use fees.
A 2019 report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that a federal VMT tax could reduce damage to US highways and lessen traffic congestion by encouraging trucking companies to 'change what kinds of trucks they used or where or when they drove.'
However, adding it to existing federal and state gas taxes rather than replacing them may lead to higher consumer prices for everyday families.
Buttigieg told CNN in March 'that's not part of the conversation about this infrastructure bill' when asked about a VMT tax by Jake Tapper.
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You are going to buy a GPS tracker, when you buy your next tag, next time.
Stupid prole. Don't wanna hear about this "rights" thing. You have no "rights."
Remember ,, It’s a ‘fee’.
Watch the Chief Justice Roberts&The bend-oveRs eventually let all this crap go in effect.
Aren’t we blessed to have so many ‘honest’ politicains spiking the path ahead with economic IEDs that will rip families, industries and nations to shreds?
They openly proclaim how good things will be if they only get their way. Maybe the electorate will finally show them ‘the highway’ and charge them a hefty fee on the way out.
Are you really almonds? What is the alternative to mushy republicans? More democrats? Abstain from voting?
Just give me a rational alternative.
Remember that government greed is insatiable. It is small step from tracking your mileage to letting you know of all the times you were traveling over the posted speed limit and how you now have to pay for numerous “speeding” tickets if you want to renew your registration.
State Farm Insurance has such device on my car now. It tracks my trips and how good or bad I drive.
A year of two ago, I remember it being $0.62/gal; somehow it dropped, which is unusual.
The way the guberment works the cost of collection will be 120% of the revenues which will mandate another tax to cover the shortage.
State Farm already monitors my driving speed, hard breaking, fast turns, how many miles I drive, if I violate any speed limits, and other bad driving habits. My insurance premium discount is based on how good or bad I drive. There is a small device mounted in my car which monitors my driving.
It’s about tracking your travel, now they have a tax assessment reason to know your travels.
Federal government gets 18¢ per gallon.
GOP? What’s new
YOU MUST VOLUNTARILY COMPLY AND LIKE IT...OR ELSE.
The government LOVES to make lives of middle class difficult or more complicated.
Look at the bright side...this will create thousands of unionized federal mileage tracker agents!
BTW -don't forget that (R)etards held congress for the first years of Trump's presidency.
Exactly how much conservative legislation did they put forward and send to the President?
We have cell phones, which have gps. They’ll track us that way.
uhh huh...
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