Joe Biden’s Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has unveiled plans to tax Americans for every mile they drive.
According to Buttigieg, the Biden administration is considering taxing motorists for every single mile they drive to fund their far-left $3 trillion “green” infrastructure plans.
However, experts have pointed out that the radical plan will cause financial hardship to the majority of working Americans.
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Buttigieg revealed Friday that the White House is considering a tax on vehicles’ mileage to pay for a proposal to revamp America’s infrastructure.
Critics immediately slammed the radical proposal, claiming that it will hurt Americans who live in rural areas where there are more miles between destinations.
The tax hike would also hit electric car owners who would normally avoid taxes on fuel.
Theblaze.com reports: Buttigieg is calling for “a generational investment in infrastructure,” but has offered few details regarding how it might be financed, as the Associated Press noted earlier this week.
The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was asked about the possibility of a mileage tax as an option during an interview on CNBC, and he replied, “So, I think that shows a lot of promise,” explaining:
“If we believe in that so-called ‘user pays principle’ — the idea that part of how we pay for roads is you pay based on how much you drive — the gas tax used to be the obvious way to do it, it’s not anymore. So a so-called Vehicle Miles Traveled tax or mileage tax, whatever you want to call it, could be a way to do it.”
Implementing a mileage tax would involve installing every vehicle on the roadway with a distance-tracking device, which raises both privacy and tampering concerns.
Proponents of such a plan argue that it is more fair than a fuel tax because even electric cars are taxed under the scheme. But such a tax hits the poor the hardest, and opponents from both right and left came out swinging against Buttigieg to make that point.
“Truly brilliant way to completely screw over lower income and middle class Americans!” Meghan McCain, co-host of “The View,” tweeted. “And every single person living in a rural area who has to drive far to get places! Just brilliant Pete, truly.”
Fox News host Laura Ingraham said of Buttigieg’s comments, “Once again, Biden & Secretary ‘Pete’ hurting the poor and middle class most with ‘miles travelled’ tax.”
Progressive journalist Walker Bragman tweeted, “We should be ‘funding’ public infrastructure by taxing the wealthiest Americans. Pete Buttigieg’s first big idea as transportation secretary is funding it with a mileage tax, which basically means people who use the roads more pay more. Regressive McKinsey brain.”
Someone else argued, “I don’t think he’s thought this out very well. Housing costs in Nashville is causing ppl to move miles away to find affordable housing. This would hit those who could ill afford it hard as there is NO public transportation to take advantage of. This would hit rural areas hard.”
But the transportation secretary had some defenders. One person tweeted, “Excellent idea! The more you drive, the more you pay. Seems like a fair proposal to me. The haters don’t have an alternative and they’d rather see China racing us by apparently…”
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Up yours Butt Boy, wait…he would surely enjoy that!
People already pat taxes on fuel regardless of what it is and on service costs timed to mileage a d on maintenance if tyres and depreciation But drug dealers should be taxed per mile and the cops know who they are as do their ” community ” bankers .They’re all in it together Princess Dianba All playing the 3 wise monkeys act. So as not to 8ncrim8bate 4hemselves
this mileage tax is about tracking, not taxation. they already have a good method with tax fee/ gallon. No other explanation that they want a mileage tax to go on top of that, only to track you. CO2 accumulation is not real people. the CO2 composition is still only .04% of the atmosphere, like it was when the scientist first broke down the composition 200 years ago. explain that one. Photosynthesis continues to keep up with CO2 production easily.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is not taxable, it is a right, not only given but created by God almighty and backed up by the constitution.
Imagine how high transport costs will be for truckers.
Put a tax on the electric car chargers and leave the gas taxes for the gas powered cars to make things even between gas and electric cars.
Local municipalities already choose whether or not to upcharge the registration of an electric vehicle. Some charge almost $300 extra a year. That more than covers the loss in gas tax. But generally only E car owners even know about that.
IF they ever tried this, there would be a thousand new ways of screwing with Odometers to make them inaccurate. That screws the auto sales industry and used car buyers. Knowing this they will propose an either an app for the phone, or a device for the car, owned by the government. It appears our current government is desperate to build an infrastructure to track our every move. For anyone who has never been to China that reads this, I have, and this is EXACTLY what they do. Cams on the highways and city streets, mobile phone tracking and monitoring. This is some serious sht and this country is in serious trouble.
Every facet of our lives will eventually be interfaced with the RFID chip, aka Mark of the Beast. Thanks just the same, but I ll pass.
oh, they are going to do it. They got you to wear a mask didn’t they?
nope
who says Gay people are smart?
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Put a tax on butt plugers?
….and the slow but persistant march toward having everyone fitted with an RFID device continues, no device no services period.Yet we welcome the installation of 5G networks with their high powered antennae every couple hundred meters, and sell it tous such that we can download a movie in 30 seconds or less… and yes China is leading in this particular tech, cameras everywhere, facial recognition and social scores
They want full control and full surveillance on everyone. Google and Facebook are building acres acres of data centers to store all the data on you guys. they are going up at break neck speed. I mean huge data centers all over the world. Some buildings are not even full of servers, but they are racing to build more right next door. They expect a lot of data to be collected very soon. They have been doing this for at least 10 years, they have planned for this need.
thise depots need to be blown to to oblivion…
Pete Buttplug sticks his toll mileage transponder up his Ass..
He might enjoy it?
this is such bullshit- they always have $$ for another war – but when infrastructure is needed we are taxed to death. There politicians need to be made room temp.