Buttigieg: Mileage Tax to Fund Infrastructure ‘Shows a Lot of Promise’

Breitbart ^ | 03/26/2021 | Pam Key

[ChicagoConservative27]

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” that to fund President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill, a tax on mileage traveled looks promising.

When asked about a mileage tax, Buttigieg said, “I think that shows a lot of promise. If we believe in that so-called user-pays principle, the idea that part of how we pay for roads is you pay based on how much you drive. The gas tax used to be the obvious way to do it; it’s not anymore. So, a so-called vehicle miles traveled tax or a mileage tax, whatever you want to call it, could be the way to do it.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

This should go over real well with truckers.

[Red Badger]

He probably personally interviewed them at the rest stops................

[caww]

LOL..my first thought....truckers...then that will get passed to us as consumers..... it’s double taxation so to speak.

[BenLurkin]

Taxed

Enough

Already

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We are all remoting into work now, Buttman.

[9YearLurker]

They only want the wealthy to be able to afford to drive.

Europe has been semi- that way for decades, but they really want to escalate it.

Our horrible CT guv planning something likewise on the state level IIRC.

[Old Yeller]

We’re gonna take it in the ass with this guy.

[monkeyshine]

Internet tax to pay for West Virginia road improvement.

[Bob434]

[[The gas tax used to be the obvious way to do it; it’s not anymore.]]

Then get rid of the gas taxes!

[joshua c]

Poor people usually have long commutes because they cannot afford to live close in. They can only afford outlying counties.

[Col Frank Slade]

A nationwide truck strike would paralyze the country in a very very short time.

[rigelkentaurus]

Let me guess. Hmmmm.... Does the federal gas tax go away? Didn’t think so.... And you will demand a GPS device to be attached to each vehicle at our expense and then we have to go somewhere so the Feds can regularly download all the information about each vehicle, where it has been etc, or does it somehow connect regularly to the internet to report on our activities?

[caww]

They're always looking for revenue flows. for infrastructure.....how many Administrations have allotted Billions for that already?....where did it go? Two guesses and it wasn't infrastructure.

[Levy78]

Put a cork in it, twink.

[nesnah]

This guy sounds like a real deep-thinking genius.

/sarc

[joshua c]

What? Isnt the amount of gas purchased a good indicator of how much you use the roads? We have a gas tax.

If it is just for battery powered cars then tax them.

Leave the rest of us alone.

[eyeamok]

Liberals always find ways to Tax the Poor!!

[ExpatCanuck]

How To Destroy a Country In 90 Days.

[cherry]

we can't assemble...we can't practice our religion with full congregations...we can't burn in our fireplaces on certain days...we can't water our lawns on certain days...we can't say certain words...we can't take money out of our retirement without a good chunk going to the govt...

the govt tracks every single financial move unless its cash....

property taxes on any properties we dare to own...

and on top of gas taxes, we now get to pay for whatever distance we want to travel....

we are ants in a maze...

[caww]

Ha!...Since when did Dems give a hot about poor or people in general.....I expect we'll get a few crumbs from the Government Revenue pockets WE supply.....bridge here and there with all the Political Grandstanding...then it's done.