JTN: 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.
During Buttigieg’s confirmation hearing in the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Thursday, Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott asked him if he would support increasing the federal gas tax, which is currently charged to drivers in addition to state gas taxes. The federal gas and diesel tax is the primary source of funding for the Federal Highway Trust Fund.
“I think all options need to be on the table, as you know, the [federal] gas tax has not been increased since 1993, and it has never been pegged to inflation, and it’s one of the reasons why the current state of Highway Trust Fund is that there’s more going out than coming in,” Buttigieg replied. “In the long term, we need to bear in mind also that as vehicles become more efficient and as we pursue electrification, sooner or later, there will be questions about whether the gas tax can be effective at all.” more
They already have those. They’re called toll roads.
Expensive gasoline and diesel has a direct negative effect on the economy and the quality of life of the average American.
A per mile tax would be the same.
And either would reduce the miles driven and the taxes collected from them so it would also have a negative effect on anything the increases were intended to fund.
IMO.
Remember obummer’s trillion dollar stimulus, and all the road projects that it was supposed to fund? If that money had actually gone to roads every mile of highway and bridge in the USA would have been rebuilt by now.
https://retrobaltimore.tumblr.com/post/85647101154/now-and-then-pictures-baltimore-beltway-triple
See these overpasses? They are 55 years old. I drive under them daily, along with hundreds of thousands of other people. They patched the concrete peers and painted the frame a few years ago, but it was just a cosmetic patch to hide the inevitable. I hope I can retire before these collapse and create a traffic nightmare on the b’more beltway.
What does a gay male do with his surplus semen you ask?
He puts it in a Peter Butt Jug.
Just sayin’.
That would get the Tesla and other electric or hybrid vehicles to be charged for road use since they aren’t paying fair share in fuel taxes, but, some “genius” probably will give them a pass since they are saving planet with their zero emission (excluding coal to generate electricity for recharging). Vehicles.
General Mills has been threatening this for a long time. She wants mileage to be reported by the people who do yearly inspections.
Oops. Sorry. My odometer broke months ago.
Does Buttgig pay a tax “per thrust”?
These effing brainiacs and ‘master planners’, have NO idea how much this will hurt small MINORITY trademan businesses that do NOT live in the inner cities, more in suburbs, yet need cars and roads to get back and forth to their job sites…and…there CUSTOMERS their client who will be charged more.
Yeah, clients and customers? That’s YOU AND ME.
VERY myopic as usual on the part of Communists.
Sure, that should help low and middle income workers get back on their feet. How bout we tax queers on the number of times they ride their partners?
What a disgusting little faggot.
And watch, recreational boating will BE NEXT.
YOU see this is Their idea of taxing rich white people, but that is really the furthest thing from the truth that this will REALLY HURT in the end as usual.
ITS the middle class, again you and me, that gets it the ASS…Mr Buttigieg.
So fucking sick of these dam elitists…
Chastain’s unbleached starfish is looking into rolling back his assodometer…..
Politicians have never met a tax they didn’t like.
What happens when you put a completely unaccomplished little entitled narcissist in charge of anything with a big budget?
A total friggin disaster.
Just give the little fag his attendance trophy and bouquet of roses, pat him on the head, take a pic of him hugging and kissing his “wife” and throw him off the pier.
We’re facing mountains of stupid ahead, just as we knew we would.
Are you listening Republicants? Get ready to pay dearly !!!!
Now: “We will implement a mileage tax in place of the gas tax. But until the mileage tax is fully in place we will keep the gas tax.”
Two years from now: “What? We never said we would get rid of the gas tax.”
Brilliant when most tech companies are likely never to go back to full time in an office setting so this again is very regressive and hits blue collar workers, truckers, and lower income workers that have to drive to work.
As an aside our insurance State Farm has tried for years to get us to hook the blue tooth up so they can track everything we do, where we go, how fast we drive, how soon we brake and in return they’ll heavily discount our car insurance. NO THANKS. Gladly paying more not to have that tracking that the government and anyone else can likely buy the data.
Yeah , I was wondering too how many miles his asshole has on it six inches at a time.
I think Pete Booty¹ should be taxed on the number of brain cells he uses each day. It wouldn’t be all that much money, to be sure, but it might be enough of a disincentive so that he’d shut the fuck up.
1. That’s pronounced “boo-TAY”. See The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
Pack people into dense urban hell holes, restrict free travel out of cities via high taxes severe cost of long distance travel,force government controlled transport on people and restrict communication.Shut down transport and communication when necessary to keep control, fenceless prison.a commie totalitarian dream.They keep doing the same thing,but they hope by banishing and rewriting history and controlling media people will roll over and take it. They know a bloody fight is comming.
I am at the point of no return with these spawn of an unwed mother! God forgive me, but I keep thinking, “Kill them all; and let God sort them out in the JUDGMENT! Just how much must we take to be turning the other cheek? I’ve already got whiplash from turning the other cheek! With liberals socking me and all of us at every opportunity, I’m saying FTMFERS! Hit me again and you die!!!
Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out!
FOAD you stinking POS, clean up your own house and leave me the f*ck alone!
Butthead is a fucking idiot. But, that’s why he was put in place in the federal government.
If charged by miles driven,
does that mean the gas tax will be rescinded?
lol.
Somebody needs to figure out and market a method to roll back odometers in such a way as to not be discovered.
Just suggestin’ it for a friend…
Has he wished in one hand, and crapped in the other yet? >:(
Keep in mind that the only realistic way to track mileage is to equip every vehicle with GPS. And to track you.
I’ll follow The Rubber Duck’s example on this: I tore up all of my swindle sheets and left them sitting there on the scales.
BrimmingUSPride just go out a hit somebody. Wanna’ know what happens?
If you deal out a judicious beating, you get arrested. You post bail. You go to court….like 3 or 6 times because they’ll keep delaying the case for months. Then…
A. case gets tossed. What, you think Uncle Sam really cares if you give Johnny a shiner?
B. you get time in the can, not much, and maybe some community service, possibly pay a fine.
It’s not that bad. Sometimes it’s even worth it cuz you can sit there and laugh remembering the Sonny Corleone style beating you dished out.
My point is, all your life you’ve been good. Mostly because you are, but also due to training. They train you to fear the cops, fear the system, they train you to fear.
Screw that. Once you go through the system, once you see their boogeyman, they’re powerless over you. For life.
Look at all those antifah queers. They go apeshit. Why? Because they know all that will happen is a little jail.
You don’t have to be Mike Tyson and smack everyone you see. All I’m sayin’ is people shouldn’t live in fear. They should face that fear so they can have some real internal freedom.
Kill your good paying job that was 8 miles from home which forces you to take that lower paying job you’re lucky to have gotten that’s 50 miles from home. Then, they charge you for every mile you drive.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!….
Bootyjudge was picked for his extensive experience of filling gaping potholes on Indiana’s Hershey Highway.
That is the sum total of his pedigree.
They’ll force every car manufacturer to install that “Snitch-O-Meter” that the imbeciles who use Progressive now voluntarily put in their cars.
“Look! I can tell the company exactly how I drive and where I go! Can’t wait until I can tell the government, too!”
…relax.
…it’s not like they’re gonna let you keep your car anyway…
…see, Commies are serious control freaks. That’s why they keep trying to price you out of your car and keep pushing Gummit controlled mass transit.
That way, they can control where you can go, when you can go there, when you have to come back, and monitor how long you stay there.
…also, a lot of their plans depend on the peasants staying where they’re put. Can’t have the White Christians moving away from the African Muslims just because they don’t want to live next to people whose religion says they must convert or kill and who get zany if you have a pork BBQ, now, can you?
..because, diversity, or whatever, will make the White Genocide MUCH easier and dilute the remnant Conservative vote and keep them from being able to talk in private…
There sure are a lot of negative comments about my Petey B from all you hater potaters. BUTT one thing’s positive for sure…my Petey B will put his stick shift into high gear when he burns rubber while riding my unbleached elastic starfish!