Posted on 05/20/2021 5:23:33 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday suggested using a truck-only vehicle miles traveled tax during the Senate Finance Committee's hearing on infrastructure funding.
His suggested method would levy a tax of 25-cents for every mile driven. The mileage would be tracked via government-mandated devices that report the data back to the IRS.
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Texas Trucking Association President and CEO John D. Esparza noted taxing drivers a quarter for every mile equates to approximately $25,000 per truck that drives 100,000 miles a year – almost half the average salary for a truck driver.
"Eighty-eight percent of trucking businesses in Texas are small mom and pop shops already operating on paper thin margins who can ill afford to be targeted while helping the nation recover from a global pandemic," he added. "For those that can manage to survive a massive consumption tax, it will result in increased costs of goods and services for all consumers. What is bad for trucking, is bad for all Texans and a discriminatory tax will be felt by everyone."
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), still an existential threat to the USA.
That’s Sen, Cornball for ya.
This tax would be considered a business expense and consumers would pay the tax not truckers. A rino tells another lie
That’s an inhuman amount of taxes. An average trucker might drive 1,000 miles in a day.
That is upwards of $90,000/year.
Cornyn is an Assistant Democrat.
I live in Texas and can assure you that, most of us hate this sorry POS.
Worthless as tits on a boar hog.
Trucks do exact a toll on the roads, but so do cars. If the Federal government were serious, they would make sure existing gas taxes are actually used for highways and demand that the states pony up a share of a real maintenance schedule for interstate highways or lose their highway funding. Instead, the states do nothing until the roads are falling apart and then get bailed out by the Feds.
This is just another way to sneak in gps location data for all vehicle. First for commercial trucks, then for everyone.
The same route they followed to make driver's licenses into identification cards.
Cornyn is an Assistant Democrat.
Worse than that. Maybe Vice Democrat?
This is a joke, right?
We really, really do have to stop re-electing Assistant Democrats.
I think truckers are limited to 11 hr/day.
At 80 mph, that’s only 880 mi.
We have the best government money can buy!
I wonder if this ass-hat ever considered that spending is too high and they need to instead look for ways to pare down gov’t.
What a dope.
Cornyn is an idiot.
They are coming for everything. Unless we stop them in their tracks we are heading for 1,000 years of darkness
Yes, friends, that's how it works.
Amazing that this measure would originate with a Republican from Texas, a state whose population is spread out, forcing many to drive long distances to reach their destinations. And most of those hit by the new tax will be Republican voters.
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