Not secret any more. But of course the media will deliberately and intentionally NOT tell the brain-dead American public.
What a cop out.
It will not replace gas taxes. It will be over and above the current federal gas tax we already pay.
Yep. And taxes on offroad fuel. and much more hidden crap.
Rent on your own house and taxi fare on your own car. We owe Britain an apology for 1776. What was the point?
Where are all the GOP fluffers who insisted we had to keep re-electing Assistant Democrats?
3 of our 4 cars have no GPS.
Cell phones don't count because it would record passenger travel.
How many lay abouts in the cities drive cars? How about we tax each subway ride??
I’m OK with this, electric vehicles should pay their fair share. And this will be done instead of the federal gasoline tax, right? RIGHT???
Deep State has a mad-on for the red bits...
For freedom of movement...
For freedom.
So poor people would have to make a payment every quarter to the government. Sounds like a plan. Except that would require that they have a car new enough to have the special tracker equipment loaded on their vehicle. Cash For Clunkers Reborn!!!
There won't be any trading going on. Gas taxes are imposed by the states, they won't go away. We'll just get both.
The biggest hurdle to a "mileage tax" on any geographic scale is going to be the enormous cost of collecting the revenue. The fuel tax has a number of major flaws that are starting to become obvious over time, but one of the most attractive features of that tax is that the administrative costs associated with it are miniscule. From what I understand, the fuel taxes are only paid to the government by fewer than a dozen major fuel wholesalers in the entire country. For a "mileage tax," on the other hand, I've seen estimates that the cost of collecting the taxes would be something on the order of 20% of the revenue generated by the tax.
I am nearly retired, don’t drive much. For those conservatives this hurts, I feel for you. But I will enjoy hearing the cries of Biden voters as they get stung hard.
Reading it now.
(1) TOOLS.—In selecting the methods described in subsection (c)(1), the Secretary shall coordinate with entities that voluntarily provide to the Secretary for use under the pilot program any of the following vehicle-miles-traveled collection tools:
(A) Third-party on-board diagnostic (OBD-II) devices.
(B) Smart phone applications.
(C) Telemetric data collected by automakers.
(D) Motor vehicle data obtained by car insurance companies.
Isn't that the only way you are ever going to get owners of Teslas and other electric cars to pay for road and highway upkeep?
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The ultimate remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government run by crook Democrats and RINOs who are oppressing patriots under their boots, unconstitutional federal taxes just one example...
Patriots need to primary federal and state elected officials who don't send voters email ASAP that clearly promises to do the following.
Federal and state lawmakers need to promise in their emails to introduce resolutions no later than 100 days after start of new legislative sessions that proposes an amendment to the Constitution to the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
The five states with the highest gas taxes are:
Pennsylvania - $0.586
California - $0.533
Washington - $0.519952
New Jersey - $0.414
New York - $0.4045
You’re not going to TRADE taxes, you’re going to pay BOTH!