solar panels area waste of money. So are windmills, they kill lots of birds, and the environmental impact from their production vastly outpaces any "good" they do. . If they were truly worried about the environment they would be all for hydroelectric and nuclear.
Hydro is the worst of them all. Incredibly damaging to migratory fish populations. But people only care about how much we fertilize the air (carbon) these days. Just convert all that stupid solar and wind land to forest and we can keep combusting away with the most efficient and energy dense sources we have found to date.
Any idea what the per mile rate is expected to be?
Say average miles is 12k/yr
Say tax is $0.01/mile
$3T would take 25B car years to fund.
There’s about 285m cars registered in America.
It would take over 87years of every car paying an average of 1200$/yr to fund the project.
Average take home hourly is approximately $16.5, which means that after paying income tax the average American would need to work 72hrs every year to pay the average tax at 1c per mile.
Take home annual of approx 33k, means that average American buying power would be reduced by 3.6% by this tax alone.
Edit: big whoops, off by a factor of 10, don’t feel like going thru and editing everything.
This means that the government will need to track everyone's vehicle to assess the tax. But don't worry, it's for a good cause and the data will never be abused.
Anyone who has followed environmental nonsense since the 1980's, realize long ago, the entire environmental movement is about two things: 1) destroying any source of energy so America's economy tanks and 2) taxing the middle class as much as possible to destroy any remaining prosperity.
If the environmental movement was serious, they'd be demanding more nuclear power plants.
They'd have to have a tracker enabled on every type of vehicle. When Progressive Insurance introduced a tracker would "reward" good drivers, I couldn't scream HELL NO loud enough; and I've never been a customer of their company. This is absolutely a violation of the 4th Amendment at the very least.
If they did this, they’d have to make ODO unable to be messed around with. Older cars are especially easy to mess with the odometer. Otherwise, older cars are a mileage tax “loophole”... rich people love maintaining older cars.
That’s not a bad “these taxes only affected the poor & middle class!” argument they should be challenged to answer for.
Either they crush the middle class and the poor, or they get to push even more regulation and require cars before x year to be retrofitted with a compliant odo in order to be registered. More regs, more power, old cars that don’t comply off the road.
We DO get taxed by the mile.
Every time you fill up your gas tank, you pay taxes on that.
I swear to fucking god if this happens I'm going full sovereign citizen.
Honestly, they may have to tax by the mile unless they completely overhaul how road construction and maintenance is funded. Right now its funded through vehicle registration and gas taxes. But the more electric and hybrid cars that are sold each year, the less road tax gets collected. They use less/no gas so there is more utilization of the roads with less funds collected.
solar panels area waste of money. So are windmills, they kill lots of birds, and the environmental impact from their production vastly outpaces any "good" they do. . If they were truly worried about the environment they would be all for hydroelectric and nuclear.
Hydro is the worst of them all. Incredibly damaging to migratory fish populations. But people only care about how much we fertilize the air (carbon) these days. Just convert all that stupid solar and wind land to forest and we can keep combusting away with the most efficient and energy dense sources we have found to date.
I hope they get solar to a point where it's not do harmful to manufacture.
So if this happens we should all run our engines in the driveway until they reverse course
With California gas prices, that'd bankrupt me in 11 hours.
I’m all in on this!!
Wasn't his dad a commie professor or something like that?
Yup. Exactly.
This faggot ass gay Mr. Bean just wants to destroy your life so that he can live on top of us.
If the reason is that electric and natural gas powered vehicles aren't subject to petroleum tax, then transponders on them only is the answer.
Otherwise, it is double taxation for petroleum powered vehicles.
Any idea what the per mile rate is expected to be?
Say average miles is 12k/yr
Say tax is $0.01/mile
$3T would take 25B car years to fund.
There’s about 285m cars registered in America.
It would take over 87years of every car paying an average of 1200$/yr to fund the project.
Average take home hourly is approximately $16.5, which means that after paying income tax the average American would need to work 72hrs every year to pay the average tax at 1c per mile.
Take home annual of approx 33k, means that average American buying power would be reduced by 3.6% by this tax alone.
Edit: big whoops, off by a factor of 10, don’t feel like going thru and editing everything.
Nice breakdown fren!
Actually I think I made a pretty big error! 12000 miles at 1c per mile is only 120$/yr. Which is still $120+(0.33*annual income) too much.
Vote for a pedophilic potato they said. It will be fine they said.
3 trillion? more like 20
This means that the government will need to track everyone's vehicle to assess the tax. But don't worry, it's for a good cause and the data will never be abused.
The WH can't levy tax. Ironically, right now China can.
Anyone who has followed environmental nonsense since the 1980's, realize long ago, the entire environmental movement is about two things: 1) destroying any source of energy so America's economy tanks and 2) taxing the middle class as much as possible to destroy any remaining prosperity.
If the environmental movement was serious, they'd be demanding more nuclear power plants.
Hey delivery drivers... Fuck you. This butt sucking elf can fall off a tall building.
They'd have to have a tracker enabled on every type of vehicle. When Progressive Insurance introduced a tracker would "reward" good drivers, I couldn't scream HELL NO loud enough; and I've never been a customer of their company. This is absolutely a violation of the 4th Amendment at the very least.
Or just when you renew your registration they add an odo check and the state forwards the tax to the feds.
If they did this, they’d have to make ODO unable to be messed around with. Older cars are especially easy to mess with the odometer. Otherwise, older cars are a mileage tax “loophole”... rich people love maintaining older cars.
That’s not a bad “these taxes only affected the poor & middle class!” argument they should be challenged to answer for.
That’s perfect, from their perspective.
Either they crush the middle class and the poor, or they get to push even more regulation and require cars before x year to be retrofitted with a compliant odo in order to be registered. More regs, more power, old cars that don’t comply off the road.
They'll just define an average MPG, calculate the tax based on that, and apply it directly to fuel sale.
Translation: If you don't want to fly, you can't go on road trips either...
A sicko pervert.
Belongs no where near power.
Pete = Peter eater
Great way to really make the remaining blue collar democrats hate you.
You think ghetto black people would be cool with this lol?
They don’t care, they drive their gf’s dodge neon.
Never will happen
So people who drive 9 miles in 45 minutes because they live in a crowded shithole will pay less than someone who drives 20m in 25 mins? Nice.
WTF? That’s fucking unAmerican!! So now we can’t even drive to the ducking grocery store without getting taxed? OMG! I fucking hate these people!
That was always true...
We DO get taxed by the mile. Every time you fill up your gas tank, you pay taxes on that. I swear to fucking god if this happens I'm going full sovereign citizen.
True, but 15 gallons in my truck doesn't get me as far as 3 gallons in my motorcycle .
I play Ticket to Ride all the time and there’s no point tax on how many trains I have on the board.
Nothing says lockdown like we will tax you for driving. Next for better clean air we will tax you for breathing.
Honestly, they may have to tax by the mile unless they completely overhaul how road construction and maintenance is funded. Right now its funded through vehicle registration and gas taxes. But the more electric and hybrid cars that are sold each year, the less road tax gets collected. They use less/no gas so there is more utilization of the roads with less funds collected.
Does anyone wonder if he secretly is straight and is part of a cia psy-ops?
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He looks like a retarded beaver. Change my mind.
...you mean like taxing gas?
People still drive places?
Only employed people the ones that dont matter to Democrats