I’m fastening my overall galluses as I post. This won’t go over well with Deplorables.
Now where is my pitchfork?
correction ——. When illegitimate president biden announced.....
BS,
It’s already that way. If I drive more I pay more because I have to buy more fuel. And that way doesn’t involve universal surveillance or turning every highway, street, alley, parking lot, or driveway into a toll road. Oh, they didn’t take into account how more fuel-efficient cars, hybrids, and electrics would affect things? Well, how about that!
Why do they have to worry about “paying” for their agenda. Congress has been writing blank checks for over 60 years now.
Times and technologies have changed. Some technological advances and changes to business processes improve the ability to live in a rural setting. We now can work entirely from home, generate our electricity, produce water from air or tie into a water system's plastic pipeline.
Our big-screen TVs, internet access to the latest blockbusters, and buttered popcorn machines, not to mention the ability to make our soda's just about put movie theaters out of business, along with COVID.
Almost anything you needed to go to town for can now be delivered by UPS, FedEx, etc., at little or no added cost to the purchase price.
Technology and readily available knowledge on the web mean you can quickly grow much of your food, 3D print everyday objects, buy the latest robot, drone, etc.
As more and more people move to rural areas, which seems to be the hottest real estate market these days, even more, technological advances and changes in doing business will come about.
Cities may become more like those cities depicted in movies such as 1984 and Soylent Green.
Older, non-electronic vehicles will get snatched up.
Google will notice an increased search for “how to rollback your speedometer”.
This is a prime example of why rural folks feel forgotten about.
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Oh no. They are not forgotten. This is to help ‘encourage’ more people to leave the rural areas and move to the cities so they can be more closely managed and controlled. Rural areas will be the play grounds of the extremely wealthy like Gates & Co
You could drive for 50 miles without crossing a single bridge, on a roadway in a warmer area that doesn't tear up in cold winters, and requires a few signs at best.
You could also commute across crumbling bridges, in stop and go traffic, while tearing up the roads in a cold northern city, with overhead signs, traffic lights, street lights, etc.,...but you've only driven five miles.
Nah, they will never give up a federal gas tax
We’ll get both a gas tax and a mileage tax from Howdy Doody Buttjig
I rin a small business that racks up 20,000 miles a year. I’ll just raise my prices to cover the tax totally. I won’t eat one cent of it.
The majority of rural voters are not democrats, so their ox is not getting gored.
So! Another opportunity for the government to snoop into our lives.
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Why?
Warning
One goal of Communist and these leftist control freaks are to limit/eliminate the freedom of travel.
Gas tax does this. The more miles you drive the more gas you consume. The more gas you consume the more tax you pay. Simple. However this doesn’t take into account electric cars.
The owners of Teslas, Priuses and Honda Civics wont be happy campers. Corvette and Ford-350 owners will be sitting pretty.
The source of the funds, a gas tax or a mileage tax, is unimportant. It will still be misdirected to feel-good social programs and into the coffers of “connected” enterprises.
The left wants all of us living in highrise apartments within walking distance to our jobs, all to “save the planet”, of course.
They don’t give a damn about rural America so long as their arugula and kale are fresh.