Driving Less Means Less Gas Tax Revenue

WFMJ-TV ^ | 7/28/08

[mad puppy]

I don’t doubt that for a minute. And if you think the Fed’s are only getting 18.4/gallon, you’re mad. There is no way their letting all the oil into the US without some import fee somewhere.

If some personal solar/wind ??? energy plant is ever built for households, that for $50 you could put on your roof and have it take care of a large % of your electric bill and the feds couldn’t find a way to tax it....good grief they’d go nuts. Look at them trying to get to the internet to tax that....

[taxcontrol]

Dem response: Raise the gas tax!
Republican response: Pump more oil so people will drive more

[the anti-liberal]

This does not include the Fed take, corporate taxes assessed on 'big oil,' nor taxes, leases, and fees assessed at every point along the way from the ground to the holding tank at your local gas station:

[the anti-liberal]

"Look at them trying to get to the internet to tax that...."

Socialism is expensive.

And if it's expensive now, just wait until Obambi gets in the House!

[dr huer]

You have it right!! Lass driving less wear and tear less upkeep costs!

[Master of Orion]

Last week, I can’t remember where I read it, but Congress was considering raising the gas tax. One way or the other, they will collect our money.

There also was a congress critter who was floating the idea of gas stamps for the needy. Something has to change.

[Cementjungle]

Let’s go back to dirt roads.

[Kellis91789]

Every model car will have to be assigned a cost-per-mile driven based on its weight and number of wheels. That is the only way to arrive at a valid estimate of wear-and-tear. The price to replace Federal fuel taxes would need to be in the range of 0.5 cents (sub-compact) to 4 cents (tractor trailer) per mile.

Having done that, every car owner would have to report each registered vehicle’s miles driven each month or year and be billed for road tax. Your car can’t be registered for another year unless all your road taxes are paid up. That covers every road vehicle regardless of fuel type.

This would also fix the current problem of paying taxes on fuel that isn’t used for road vehicles — farm equipment, generators, lawnmowers, bulldozers, etc.

[FlyVet]

Higher gas prices = less driving = less revenue.

Answer: more taxes, which causes higher gas prices = less driving = less revenue.

Answer: more taxes, which causes higher gas prices = less driving = less revenue.

You see how smart our "leaders" are?

[Myrddin]

Less driving also means less wear and tear on the roads. The tax is proportional to use AND wear. The breathless whining is essentially an admission that the tax revenues are going somewhere other than road maintenance.

[Squat]

Yes, that’s right let’s charge congress 18.5 cents for everytime they F___ us. That should fill the coffers!

[DoughtyOne]

The highway trust fund is short funding, because funds are stolen from it all the time for mass transit. Who are these idiots kidding?

You can’t take tens of billions of dollars from the highway funds then think the remaining highway funds are going to be enough.

Buses, mass transit trains, and other nanny state programs are nice if they support themselves, but they don’t. They are subsidized.

Expand our highways. Make these mass transit programs stand on their own. And knock off the double or triple taxation schemes for toll roads and the such.

[bestintxas]

Yherre should not be a federal highway trust fund, Period.
Leave highway funding to states.

It just goes to strengthen the grip the people in DC have over the states.