Posted on 01/23/2021 2:40:38 PM PST by TigerLikesRoosterNew
Incoming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has suggested taxing Americans for the number of miles they drive, a policy he endorsed as a Democratic presidential candidate.
The Biden Administration is actively searching for ways to fund its ambitious $1 trillion infrastructure plan.
Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., acknowledged "privacy concerns" related to implementing a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) system but said it should be considered as a potential replacement for the gas tax.
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Try it Butthead and watch the backlash. Sorry, yours and Hiden's dream of eliminating fossil fuels won't happen. Semis with one or two trailers won't function on solar/wind powered plug-ins. You people are certifiable idiots.
They campaign on stimulus(freebies). They govern with higher taxes.
Perhaps he should test it first. Maybe a trial run on the Hershey Highway.
That is how this mileage tax conversation came about....with the birth of electric vehicles.
Electric vehicles also cause wear and tear on the roads but they pay no gas tax.
Every post to this thread should be HA!
Why couldn’t Biden have left that fool buried in the slime wherever he was? Because he likes slimy characters, I guess.
I guess we could make an effort to laugh at all their nonsense... We could!!!!!
Let’s wait for Susan Rice to go in front of the cameras on Sunday mornings and lie to us about everything!
Is he through yet digging up the old retreads? I sure hope so. I don’t know how much more we can stand!
It’s like taking some children who have been running a lemonade stand and letting them run the USA. Insanity. Or, more likely, more Cloward-Piven. This is destruction by design.
We’ve got to put a stop to this NOW
I’d say he needs his tank plugged, but that would be enjoyable to him.
-PJ
To renew plates in ny and nj you need a State inspection.
By using another industry that they regulate, the insurance industry. In order to get auto insurance, you will have to put down the initial milage, then when you renew the next year you will have to put down the current milage. Now of course they won't trust you to do this, so you will have to get it done at an "official center" like when you get emissions testing
Well, THAT is very easily solved with a tax on electricity used to charge electric car batteries. Basically it's a secure electric meter at the input of the battery. Then it gets scanned (at least monthly?) at any charge station(s) of your choice. Go two months with continued charges (at home?) but without a scan and the system first warns and then starts limiting charges from any source. Yes, such a system "could" be hacked, but there are ways to counter that / make it extremely difficult.
There would be plenty of tech and other details to work out, but none very hard for someone working successfully to go to Mars, I think.
I could foresee a public transportation system that accommodates individual movement for a fee. No ground contact. No wheels. Request a vehicle, hop in. Punch coordinates. Pay a fee. But it must be economically feasible. Government involvement with transportation is a legitimate aim, but it must respect individula pursuits without political bias. Ha! Good luck with that.
I would welcome a transition from so called fossil fuels into nuclear or some other energy form.
I’m waiting for the Rats to find a way to tax the sunlight. Or the air we breathe.
No.
If they understood that they wouldn't be Marxist...
We pay tax to buy the car, to fuel the car, to insure the car, to maintain the car, for the parts put into the car, and now this ***-pushing statist wants to charge us for the distance travelled on roads we pay for already?
How’s about NO!
In order to qualify for the low-mileage discount from my insurance company I have to provide a photograph of my odometer every time I renew my insurance.
This aids people with gas guzzler cars and hurts people from rural areas which it likely is designed to do.
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