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Incoming Transportation Secretary wants to implement a mileage tax
WND ^ | January 23, 2021

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: biden; buttgiggity; buttigieg; gastax; indiana; joebiden; mileagetax; petebuttigieg; southbend; southbendover; tax; taxes
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To: A Navy Vet
Stupid me. With newer cars having GPS, a new DOT hi-tech bureaucracy could keep track of your miles - think NSA. More control and costs to drivers to reach around unpopular taxes.

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.

101 posted on 01/23/2021 4:41:09 PM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated )
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To: CVS-20

They campaign on stimulus(freebies). They govern with higher taxes.


102 posted on 01/23/2021 4:46:28 PM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

Perhaps he should test it first. Maybe a trial run on the Hershey Highway.


103 posted on 01/23/2021 4:52:19 PM PST by rickomatic ( )
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To: cymbeline

That is how this mileage tax conversation came about....with the birth of electric vehicles.


104 posted on 01/23/2021 4:52:31 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

Electric vehicles also cause wear and tear on the roads but they pay no gas tax.


105 posted on 01/23/2021 4:53:53 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: Texas Eagle

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!


106 posted on 01/23/2021 4:54:48 PM PST by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

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.


107 posted on 01/23/2021 6:27:44 PM PST by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

We’ve got to put a stop to this NOW


108 posted on 01/23/2021 6:36:12 PM PST by Karoo
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

I’d say he needs his tank plugged, but that would be enjoyable to him.


109 posted on 01/23/2021 6:48:29 PM PST by Old Yeller (Nana Pelosi is a manure salesman with a mouthful of samples. Thus the slurred speaking.)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew
Put tolls on the federal highways if you must, but don't tax me for driving on my local roadway that takes me to the local grocery store. I already paid taxes for that road to my sovereign state.

-PJ

110 posted on 01/23/2021 6:51:44 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Yo-Yo

To renew plates in ny and nj you need a State inspection.


111 posted on 01/23/2021 7:11:04 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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To: Yo-Yo
How do they propose to measure mileage use per year?

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

112 posted on 01/23/2021 7:28:36 PM PST by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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To: Lisbon1940
Electric vehicles also cause wear and tear on the roads but they pay no gas tax.

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.

113 posted on 01/23/2021 7:41:23 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

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.


114 posted on 01/23/2021 8:06:31 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

I would welcome a transition from so called fossil fuels into nuclear or some other energy form.


115 posted on 01/23/2021 8:09:38 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’m waiting for the Rats to find a way to tax the sunlight. Or the air we breathe.


116 posted on 01/23/2021 8:24:09 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (We must FIGHT, I repeat it sir, we must FIGHT! -Patrick Henry)
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To: snarkytart
Do these marxist understand when gas goes up everything goes up food clothing anything that has to be delivered by trucks who need to use gas?

No.

If they understood that they wouldn't be Marxist...

117 posted on 01/23/2021 8:25:10 PM PST by GOPJ (Please don't post Twitter, starve the beast. Freeper RBW in PA)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

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!


118 posted on 01/23/2021 9:15:10 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Yo-Yo

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.


119 posted on 01/23/2021 9:16:45 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

This aids people with gas guzzler cars and hurts people from rural areas which it likely is designed to do.


120 posted on 01/24/2021 7:45:59 AM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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