Posted on 05/08/2022 12:51:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The roads have to be maintained somehow. Gas tax or mileage tax, someone who uses the roads should be helping to pay for it. Rural folk use the roads, they should pay to maintain those roads. Good luck putting odometers on Amish buggies though.
What is unfair is the gas tax going to things that aren't maintaining the roads, and wasteful (and corrupt) road projects that take forever and never accomplish what they're set out to do. Make every bidding process and construction project open, fair, and auditable, and disqualify companies from biddinf when those companies have been gaming the system with bribes and cost overruns for the past fifty years.
IL charges a yearly fee to own a EV.
ROFL! I’m dead!!
Add a surcharge based on the exit if they must, to pay for the towns that are driven through. The cities can receive the direct exit toll revenues, and perhaps a percentage of held-back revenue based on traffic to pay for the more remote roads.
-PJ
Libtards need to pay their fair share 🤪
One of the reasons we have a solar system producing 58% of the power we consumed this past year. And I'm upgrading it, while getting an EV.
There are politicians that need to be... corrected.
If anyone believes the gas price will come down in exchange for this tax, they’re crazy.
That’s exactly why Democrats want this tax. They abandoned rural America and don’t mind punishing it.
Computation of miles driven will be a headache no matter how they slice it.
I’m surprised these liberals don’t just go for it - replace gasoline tax with an electricity environmental tax. Cut out the middleman and go where the money is.
Do I want this? Of course not. But eventually they will go there.
This benefits urbans liberals and penalizes exurban and rural-small town Republicans.
Most vigorously.
“Also, once EV’s becomes the majority, expect the tax on electricity go way up.”
One of the reasons we have a solar system producing 58% of the power we consumed this past year. And I’m upgrading it, while getting an EV.
ev cars will soon be disposable and cheap.
I remember when a 42” 480p plasma was $6000.
recently I got a 50” 1080p 240hz old stock, but still in a sealed box TV for $25
and it is still in the box.
You will be tracked. The states already steal the gas tax money for other things then repairing roads. They want the ability to power off your car remotely. Already happens with smart meters where the a/c or heat is changed by the state in your home. Did not say the right things then no electricity for you.
I they impost the mileage tax will they also eliminate the gas tax?
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