Mileage Tax Proposal?

[ScottJ]

Thank goodness I'm retired, and even when I was working my job was only 6 miles away. How many of you are still in the workforce and have to drive a distance to get to your job? Vacations driving cross-country? Visiting relatives out of state? Don't we already pay a tax at the gas pump?

White House Considering Taxing You For Every Mile You Drive

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says a mileage tax may be on the table to pay for Biden's infrastructure plan.

thepoliticalinsider.com

 

[Wirenut]

My speedometer just broke, damn the luck!!!!

 

[Pitdogg2]

Why the heck are we paying all this gas tax then? My state has tripled the gas tax for that very reason in the last 5 yrs.

 

[BobM]

Thank goodness I'm retired, and even when I was working my job was only 6 miles away. How many of you are still in the workforce and have to drive a distance to get to your job? Vacations driving cross-country? Visiting relatives out of state? Don't we already pay a tax at the gas pump?

White House Considering Taxing You For Every Mile You Drive

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says a mileage tax may be on the table to pay for Biden's infrastructure plan.

thepoliticalinsider.com

Thanks for the heads up Scott

 

[BobM]

My speedometer just broke, damn the luck!!!!

Yes, it is.
In some states that would be considered an expensive fine normally called "failure to maintain factory equipment."
Hopefully your state isn't one of them.

 

[BCAD]

Thank goodness I'm retired, and even when I was working my job was only 6 miles away. How many of you are still in the workforce and have to drive a distance to get to your job? Vacations driving cross-country? Visiting relatives out of state? Don't we already pay a tax at the gas pump?

White House Considering Taxing You For Every Mile You Drive

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says a mileage tax may be on the table to pay for Biden's infrastructure plan.

thepoliticalinsider.com

It’ll just be making jobs for more bureaucrats to audit mileage while there’s already an efficient method ,the gas tax,in place that is essentially the same result. The more gas you use the more tax you pay. Once the mileage tax is collected who is to say it won’t be put into general fund, not highway’s? Remember social security?

 

[BobM]

Thank goodness I'm retired, and even when I was working my job was only 6 miles away. How many of you are still in the workforce and have to drive a distance to get to your job? Vacations driving cross-country? Visiting relatives out of state? Don't we already pay a tax at the gas pump?

White House Considering Taxing You For Every Mile You Drive

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says a mileage tax may be on the table to pay for Biden's infrastructure plan.

thepoliticalinsider.com

Would be nice if dim thinking people like Buttigieg would learn to live within their means and budgets instead of robbing Peter to pay Paul once again?

Am disgustedly waiting for a "breathometer" to take more money away from us through lame taxes just for breathing. Covid masks may be just the beginning to the next step? - Am being semi sarcastic.

 

[wmg1299]

My wife works less than a mile from home, but I have to drive into the city for work. My work often requires me to travel across multiple counties for client meetings and hearings. A per-mile tax is just a way to punish people who refuse to raise their families in the city, and hits small-business owners particularly hard. I hope that my business eventually grows large enough that clients will come to me, but I'm still at the point where I need to come to them.

 

[Phoenex]

Thank goodness I'm retired, and even when I was working my job was only 6 miles away. How many of you are still in the workforce and have to drive a distance to get to your job? Vacations driving cross-country? Visiting relatives out of state? Don't we already pay a tax at the gas pump?

White House Considering Taxing You For Every Mile You Drive

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says a mileage tax may be on the table to pay for Biden's infrastructure plan.

thepoliticalinsider.com

I'm also retired (And Lovin IT!) but I remember the days when I would hit the road at 3:30AM on a Monday to avoid the NY City traffic, drive hundreds if not thousands of miles before getting home 2 weeks later. Part of the reason the administration is pushing a mileage tax is to make up for all the electric cars using the roads and not paying for gas. Why not just tax the tree hugger's driving their expensive electric cars and leave the rest of us alone? This administration wants to redistribute wealth. However, a gas tax takes a larger percentage of income from low income families than from higher income families, so who are they trying to BS? Enough with the taxes---Build the economy.

 

[HansGruber]

I'm also retired (And Lovin IT!) but I remember the days when I would hit the road at 3:30AM on a Monday to avoid the NY City traffic, drive hundreds if not thousands of miles before getting home 2 weeks later. Part of the reason the administration is pushing a mileage tax is to make up for all the electric cars using the roads and not paying for gas. Why not just tax the tree hugger's driving their expensive electric cars and leave the rest of us alone? This administration wants to redistribute wealth. However, a gas tax takes a larger percentage of income from low income families than from higher income families, so who are they trying to BS? Enough with the taxes---Build the economy.

The bolded part is a very fair point—people with lower incomes tend to drive vehicles that get poorer mileage, and therefore are impacted harder by fuel taxes.

I’m actually a bit confused why people are upset by this—we’re charging people who use a publicly provided service more than others a higher rate; if I use more electricity than my neighbor, I pay more; if I use more water, I pay more. But if I use the road more, I should pay the same? How does that work, again?

I mean, I suppose I could be a communist freeloader and lie about my odometer, or whatever...

 

[Keystone19250]

Thank goodness I'm retired, and even when I was working my job was only 6 miles away. How many of you are still in the workforce and have to drive a distance to get to your job? Vacations driving cross-country? Visiting relatives out of state? Don't we already pay a tax at the gas pump?

White House Considering Taxing You For Every Mile You Drive

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says a mileage tax may be on the table to pay for Biden's infrastructure plan.

thepoliticalinsider.com

This would just be another example of control as I mentioned in another thread. The current administration is just going to do everything they can to ensure we are dependent on the government for survival. Heaven forbid that people can live comfortably. Tax people to death.
Control, control, control.

 

[RandomHero]

 

[Phoenex]

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Seems like the entire country is going in reverse---Just sayin!

 

[Talyn]

State & Federal politcians that get tax-payer paid limosene/air transport service as part of their office benefits should be charged the "mileage" tax as part of their service to the country/state.

 

[Talyn]

Seems like the entire country is going in reverse---Just sayin!

The Dems only know one thing when it comes to the peasant class - BOHICA

 

[ScottJ]

State & Federal politcians that get tax-payer paid limosene/air transport service as part of their office benefits should be charged the "mileage" tax as part of their service to the country/state.

If performing their state/federal taxpayer elected duties locally, also have them drive themselves in their personal vehicles, plus pay the tax.

 

[ScottJ]

The Dems only know one thing when it comes to the peasant class - BOHICA

Yep, everything is quickly becoming FUBAR.

 

[10mmLife]

The bolded part is a very fair point—people with lower incomes tend to drive vehicles that get poorer mileage, and therefore are impacted harder by fuel taxes.

I’m actually a bit confused why people are upset by this—we’re charging people who use a publicly provided service more than others a higher rate; if I use more electricity than my neighbor, I pay more; if I use more water, I pay more. But if I use the road more, I should pay the same? How does that work, again?

I mean, I suppose I could be a communist freeloader and lie about my odometer, or whatever...

I don't use the welfare system so why should my taxes go towards paying for blue team voters?

The tax paying American's shouldn't be required to pay more for a public service because of the potential more use of a roadway as we are already paying for everything including the social justice services that we don't use or support as these funds should be used to maintain our countries infrastructure.

Should we get charged individually for when our kids use a playground based on usage?

Should we be charged individually for how many steps we take on a sidewalk?

Where does it end?

 

[ScottJ]

I don't use the welfare system so why should my taxes go towards paying for blue team voters?

The tax paying American's shouldn't be required to pay more for a public service because of the potential more use of a roadway as we are already paying for everything including the social justice services that we don't use or support as these funds should be used to maintain our countries infrastructure.

Should we get charged individually for when our kids use a playground based on usage?

Should we be charged individually for how many steps we take on a sidewalk?

Where does it end?

 

[SoNic]

We need to hit rock bottom in order to free ourselfs, as a nation, of this nostalgic idea of socialism.