AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The administration has not proposed that tax. A provision in Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill before Congress would establish a national study to assess how such a tax could be implemented. It would not actually enact that tax, nor it does not outline a rate of 8 cents per mile.
Can I ask a stupid question? Why in the sam hill would anyone want to merely study how to assess a type of tax, unless they had already conceived of the idea of implementing such a tax?
And does anyone seriously believe, that such a study of the tax, once completed, would conclude that we should NOT actually implement the tax???
This is sophistry to say they are merely studying this type of tax.
1Well said - thank you!