The mileage tax is so idiotic idea, I am at loss why its even in the news.
If you drive more - you buy more gasoline - you pay more taxes. Simple enough.
Even more: cars with worse gas-mileage will consume more gas and will pay more taxes: so you are punishing less environmentally-friendly cars and reward more environmentally friendly cars. Isn’t what they want?
It’s elementary, Watson.
Isn’t what they want?
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No. Dollars and control of people are what they want.
Consider this — the government taxes cigarettes higher every time a new group of people become ex-smokers, because govt budgets have written in a certain income stream from cigarette taxes.
The same thing with highway taxes. Politicians defer to the greenies by insisting that Detroit auto-makers stop making their profitable lines - the big engine vehicles - and then raise taxes on all the people who are buying less gasoline for their smaller engined foreign sedans.
In one of the southern states, water restrictions were put in place due to drought conditions, so revenues to the state from water bills went down. That state raised the rate that householders had to pay for water, just so the budget entry would continue to be the same amount of dollars.