Posted on 03/26/2021 6:25:04 PM PDT by yoe
Biden (Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg) is weighing a (vehicle miles tax) (VMT) to fund the president's estimated ( $3 trillion infrastructure plan), which he (plans to unveil next Friday).
A VMT would tax people per miles driven and presents an alternative to further raising the gas tax.
"We’re obviously going to have to come to more solutions if we’re going to preserve the user-paid principle," Buttigieg said Thursday of a potential VMT while testifying before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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Wouldnt that be unconstitutional?
I’ll take Trial Balloons for $1000, whomever is hosting Jeopardy these days.
TAXED
ENOUGH
ALREADY
I already pay by the mile. I drive and, after a certain number of miles, I buy gasoline. That’s a cycle I repeat every couple of weeks. Oh — they’re not getting revenue from the electric cars? Revenue has dropped because of the more fuel-efficient cars the government required? Well, tax those vehicles. See, it can be done without turning every highway, street, alleyway, driveway, parking lot, dirt road, etc., into a tollway.
How would they do that fairly? Wouldn’t a big SUV be harder on the road than a Smart car? I guess I can go buy an Escalade with my stimmy dollars.
There already is a miles driven tax
Its tagged to every gallon of gas we buy right now
The fact is we are already paying separate gas taxes right now, federal and state and many, county level taxes on gas.
Separate from the other monetary confiscation government does already.
A VMT would tax people per miles driven and presents an alternative to further raising the gas tax.
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It seems at the minimum, it would replace the gas tax.
And be different, based on vehicle weight, like trucks vs ‘economy’ cars.
But we have those bicycles, you know (and joggers too), chalking up the miles - untapped revenue.
This will shut down the economy faster than a Covid lockdown.
Oh, that would be another swift move by the Democrats. ;D
It’s because he has a preference for trains.
A regressive tax that would fall more heavily on rural citizens. Yup...sounds about right. From the standpoint of the far left, just another small way to ‘defund the right’. Look for a whole bunch of military reserve cutbacks as well, particularly in conservative areas. From a strategy viewpoint, the Maltese sodomite is making a smart move against the right wing. Let’s see how the stupid party handles this. Mr. McCarthy?
Would they rely on odometers or would they place something on your license plate? If the latter, the main goal may be to make it easier to track you.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Constitution-impaired Buttigieg unsurprisingly doesn’t seem to understand that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to appropriate taxes to pay for INTRAstate infrastructure projects.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Another way to say this is the following. The main reason that the states struggle to maintain their respective infrastructures is because the unconstitutionally big, post-17th Amendment ratification feds keep stealing state revenues in the form of unconstitutional taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers according to the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above.
Patriots need to get their Constitution-impaired state government leaders up to speed with the constitutional reality that the desperate Democratic-pirated federal government is stealing state revenues and put a permanent stop to unconstitutional federal taxes by repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
They’re wanting to do this because battery electric vehicles don’t buy gas and don’t pay gas tax. Their solution is to put a per mile tax on all vehicles instead.
What a brilliant way to avoid raising taxes — impose some other tax. This, of course, would also require a new bureaucracy. Brilliant!!
Democrats, media and tech oligarchs will convince gulllible Americans that a 'vehicle miles tax' is a wonderful idea.
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
Sales Tax on fuel [baked into the per gallon pump price] is pernicious.
Its a crap fake reason
They are still a tiny fraction of vehicles on the road.
Plus infrastructure utility taxes have been paid on the electricity used to charge them.
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