Posted on 01/27/2023 10:55:34 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Left-wing fascists in San Diego are preparing to tax residents by the mile to convince them to give up their cars.
Keep voting Democrat, geniuses.
Via Fox News:
San Diego County’s Regional Transportation Agency’s (SANDAG) latest transportation plan is designed to make driving so expensive that you succumb to public transportation. In addition to the current gas tax and registration fees, SANDAG’s plan adds three new half-cent sales tax increases, over 800 miles of San Diego County freeway lanes converted to toll lanes, and a mileage tax for every mile driven to pay for their $165 billion public mass transit plan.
SANDAG’s new plan refuses to build the road improvements promised in their last plan but will continue to tax us until 2048 to pay for them.
SANDAG’s finance plan states, “Charging fees for the transportation infrastructure that people use—for example, charging users for each mile they drive on the highway—can change travel behavior.”
Gee, if that includes electric cars, I’ll never stop laughing.
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Basically they’re saying the people who don’t use public transportation should pay for the ones who do.
Surely they ain’t alone in this farce.
Out of control government is out of control.
IF they are still taxing fuel by the gallon:
THAT IS DOUBLE TAXATION ==
NOT LEGAL.
You will do what we say and like it!
Now shut up and pay your taxes!
Good, couldn’t happen to a crappier (for the most part) group of people. They’ll stand back at some point and ask themselves what happened. Perhaps they will have an epiphany. Not likely, however…
We can hope it includes Electric Vehicles.
The Democrats in California don’t care if it’s legal or not, they’ll go ahead - until a judicial or court injunction, and even then - unlikely as the court system controlled by Dems.
This is being proposed state-wide, not just in SD.
If it’s put to a proposition and voted on, it will most likely pass (due to illegals, vote fraud and idiot Democrat voters). The “people” of California recently voted down an initiative to stop the latest gas tax increase.
And yes, I know I should leave.
Taxing your travel even when it’s to go to work to pay taxes to the government for at least six months of the year before you take home a penny?
Bless your beady little hearts in the southern way.
Basically they’re saying the people who don’t use public transportation should pay for the ones who do.
-PJ
Hey San Diego residents.... remember when San Diego was a Republican-run city government? Then you morons decided to vote for libtard Demonic Party filth... embrace the suck, morons.
Incredibly, there are a good number of younger people out there who honestly believe this quote is found in our Constitution.
sucks for the rural folks who have no mass transit access.
Pack-up and Drive away
SoCal in particular is a good climate for motorcycles, and many riders ride year-round. I wonder how this pay-by-mile would work for bikes. On cars, they plug a reader into the OBD port under the dash, and it records the distance you drive (and likely all kinds of other data as well, whether you want it to or not). Many, maybe even most, bikes don’t have those ports.
Frankly, charging by the mile makes more sense than a gasoline excise tax.
Simply turn in the mileage of your vehicle when you renew your plates every year, and pay by the mileage accumulated since the last registration.
Most auto shops record the mileage whenever service is done on a vehicle, which is how Carfax knows what was done and when. So the DMV would already have a rough idea of the mileage of your vehicle, and thus know if you were vastly under-reporting.
Hey, those inner-city criminals aren’t going to rob the middle class districts on their own.
How many criminals in NYC have gone to richer areas using the subway to rob people?
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