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Pete Buttigieg wants to charge you more to get to work and buy groceries. The former mayor-turned-U.S. Transportation Secretary renewed calls for a Vehicle Mileage Tax (VMT).
The difference is that the same tax will be applied to electric vehicles. From a certain perspective it makes sense to charge people for road maintenance based on usage. But I would find it disturbing to have the government tracking my mileage. Maybe they will meter us with cameras, they same way they do with toll bridges and toll lanes? Anyway, can a federal tax charge us for using state roads? I would think not.
It's not the miles driven over the roads that cause most of the damage it's usually weight including public transportation vehicles/buses. Even in areas with freeze thaw cycles heavier vehicles are the ones that can make small problems worse.
Privacy issues along the federalization of that driving information is another issue on to itself.
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Originally Posted by rjshae
The difference is that the same tax will be applied to electric vehicles. From a certain perspective it makes sense to charge people for road maintenance based on usage. But I would find it disturbing to have the government tracking my mileage. Maybe they will meter us with cameras, they same way they do with toll bridges and toll lanes? Anyway, can a federal tax charge us for using state roads? I would think not.
Federal dollars build those state roads. That is why you cant legally buy alcohol in any state until you are 21.
Exceptionally regressive proposal. Surely a grown up will point out the stupidity of it soon enough.
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