New Per Mile Tax on its way

[Dusty Britches]

Senate infrastructure bill gives go ahead to explore per mile tax. But - it will not do away with the fuel tax.

The government never met a tax it didn't like.

The Epoch Times article

Buried in the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” in the U.S. Senate is approval for the Department of Transportation (DOT) to test a new federal tax on every mile driven by individual Americans.

The bill directs Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to establish a pilot program to demonstrate a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee designed “to restore and maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund.”

The objectives of the pilot program include:

To test the design, acceptance, implementation, and financial sustainability of a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee.

To address the need for additional revenue for surface transportation infrastructure and a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee.

To provide recommendations relating to the adoption and implementation of a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee.
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[RifleBowPistol]

So another way of stuffing their pockets with our cash. Thieves. And again, the people of this country are going to let them do it. We are getting taxed to death and loosing our freedom at a very fast rate, in the past 25 years.

[fishman]

either pay higher taxes to live in the city closer to your job or live in the country (cheaper taxes) and then get taxed more because you drive farther... what a bunch of B.....S....

[WItoTX]

I am okay with a per mile tax. Only after every fuel tax is removed, every tax when I register my truck and car is removed, and each and every tax that I pay to drive my vehicles are removed. Any taxes that currently goes to roads and bridges needs to be cut first.

Until then, no new taxes.

[CTR0022]

EV will cut into their tax revenue, this eliminates that loss.

Honestly with as much money as the government prints and spends i dont see how anyone is surprised by any tax. Im convinced texas will have a state income tax sooner than later.

[BETTERLUCKYTHANGOOD]

Good thing I stay in town during the week and walk to work, then ride the train home on the weekends.

[DJM]

But....but....but.......taxes aren't going to be raised on the middle class.

DJ

[Graysonhogs]

But....but....but.......taxes aren't going to be raised on the middle class.

DJ

Bunch of **** clowns. Something's got to give at some point.

[PoppinPiggies]

Wow talk about a gut punch for people who work in the city but don't want to live there.... Would once again encourage more remote working but also moving back to metropolitan areas and away from suburbs/ the country.

[AgHntr10]

That might be the straw that breaks me from driving to Houston for work

[RiverRat1]

Isn't this racist? How can the less privileged be confined to their homes?

Just wait for the...but "poor" people don't have to pay it.

[Hooverfb]

Isn't this racist? How can the less privileged be confined to their homes?

Just wait for the...but "poor" people don't have to pay it.

Yup. Tax thr "rich" will be the solution..

[S-3 Ranch]

What the heck happened to our highway system?
They seemed so much better back in the 1980’s and 90’s now not so much

[Beargrasstx]

Well this would suck. I have an 80 mile round trip to work. I live in the suburbs and work in the city.

[PoppinPiggies]

Well this would suck. I have an 80 mile round trip to work. I live in the suburbs and work in the city.

This is for sure! I have an almost 200 mile round trip for work 3 days a week and the wife has about a 100 mile round trip commute... depending on the cost this could be pretty killer. Then when you add in other random travel pretty much every weekend this could get expensive quick