Car mileage tax looming?

[Mose Phillip's Watch]

For or against?

Will cost me about $4000 a year @ .08 cents a mile

 

[508mikey]

Was talked about in Illinois a few years ago , better vote out any of these clowns that are for it, no matter what party . Any idiot knows full well the money won't get spent on roads

 

[508mikey]

Infrastructure Package Includes Vehicle Mileage Tax Program

 

[tntar heel]

It's only a "pilot program" to study a "Mileage Tax" and it is to replace the current gas tax. It's ONLY a $10MM study that we get to fund to see how we get screwed in the future. I want to know who the hell volunteers for this study as has been suggested in the article. They better have some run flat tires.
Mileage tax study, not actual mileage tax, proposed in infrastructure bill

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

For or against?

Will cost me about $4000 a year @ .08 cents a mile

You seriously think anyone is for this kind of thing?

Let's ask Zep about that silly Boot edge edge guy though.... you know... the one that he keeps saying is against this kind of thing....

LOL

Seriously though... what's to study? It's a tax. Leftist politicians love it.

 

[MG1968]

The only people who should ever pay a tax like this are EV drivers since they don’t pay fuel tax. But that’s not “fair.”

 

[Godfatha]

Can't control their spending so they're going to dip into your wallet even more.

 

[UT_VOLS13]

Can't control their spending so they're going to dip into your wallet even more.

FACT!!!

 

[norrislakevol]

Would cost me over 2K a year at least. I very seriously doubt this would ever fly, and if it did it would end quickly after the Dems get slaughtered at the polls.

 

[Godfatha]

This wouldn't affect me as bad right now because I am currently teleworking, but a couple years ago when I was putting 50,000 miles/year on my truck going to jobsites, this would have been killer.

This is going to put a hurting on the average joe/jill who goes to work every day. The left supposedly hates regressive taxes...well this is a regressive tax like none other.

 

[Carl Pickens]

But the Dems are all about the poor and middle class…..….. they’re good for nothing crooks

 

[C-south]

Can't control their spending so they're going to dip into your wallet even more.

But their spending doesn’t cost anything.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Anybody that thinks this is a good idea is a moron. I don’t see any mention of repealing the already excessive gasoline tax so hell no.

Well I guess we see how the idiot in chief intends to create that electric vehicle charging nationwide network! I’ll guess the moron will claim this costs zero money and doesn’t tax anybody making less than $400k either! Lying POS bastards.

 

[hog88]

Anybody that thinks this is a good idea is a moron. I don’t see any mention of repealing the already excessive gasoline tax so hell no.

Well I guess we see how the idiot in chief intends to create that electric vehicle charging nationwide network! I’ll guess the moron will claim this costs zero money and doesn’t tax anybody making less than $400k either! Lying POS bastards.

I could stomach it IF federal and state fuel taxes were repealed and no GPS tracking is required. But none of that will happen so piss on them.

Let's all face it, it's coming especially since the feds are pushing electric vehicles down our throats. They gotta get their money somehow.

 

[KB5252]

At a time when transportation costs are already high are we seriously going to drive them higher?

There comes a time when government must be checked for their lunacy. That time has come, past due IMO.

 

[McDad]

We should consider our electric bills are already taxed. Charging a car already pays tax. At best, the tax paid to charge a vehicle should be diverted to offset wear and tear on roads.

 

[NorthDallas40]

We should consider our electric bills are already taxed. Charging a car already pays tax. At best, the tax paid to charge a vehicle should be diverted to offset wear and tear on roads.

Bingo

 

[Sea Ray]

Would cost me over 2K a year at least. I very seriously doubt this would ever fly, and if it did it would end quickly after the Dems get slaughtered at the polls.

It wouldn't fly and here's the main reason why:

• Privacy concerns

  , namely that the government could track citizens’ movements, including where and when they drive;

That's never going to pass legal muster.

 

[hog88]

It wouldn't fly and here's the main reason why:

That's never going to pass legal muster.

Never say never. They can do it now if you have a newer car and/or cell phone, just need a warrant.

 

[walkenvol]

Never say never. They can do it now if you have a newer car and/or cell phone, just need a warrant.

How do you think AOC and her buddies would vote? Doubt public privacy is high on her priority list.

 

[AshG]

The best way to track this would include the ability to track your location, so it's a hell no from me.

But the abject hatred of all taxation that keeps popping up makes me scratch my head. How do we expect anything to get done? Civilizations have tried for thousands of years and come to the same conclusion. Until we evolve to a Star Trek style moneyless society, we're stuck with the bickering.

 

[utvolpj]

The best way to track this would include the ability to track your location, so it's a hell no from me.

But the abject hatred of all taxation that keeps popping up makes me scratch my head. How do we expect anything to get done? Civilizations have tried for thousands of years and come to the same conclusion. Until we evolve to a Star Trek style moneyless society, we're stuck with the bickering.

Or just track mileage. Used to track every trip when I had a company car

We have a spending problem not a revenue problem. Why be in favor of taxation when we watch the govt waste trillions each year? We watch them essentially launder tax dollars back into their own pockets. Do what is constitutionally mandated and leave the rest alone. Plenty would still get done and people would have more of their earned money in their pocket

Life without excess govt is possible

 

[Velo Vol]

No worries, the roads will pay for themselves.

 

[utvolpj]

No worries, the roads will pay for themselves.

If roads were a political priority there would already be enough money for them

 

[LouderVol]

It wouldn't fly and here's the main reason why:

That's never going to pass legal muster.

Once it hits tax status there is going to be a lot that they can do.