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I'm a truck driver, and semi's already pay the majority of fuel taxes as they get worse mileage than passenger cars (fleet average for a rig is 5 to 6 miles to the gallon), and drive more miles than passenger cars (average regional or OTR rig drives around 130,000 per year)
So what's going to happen to prices at retail stores if the cost of transportation increases dramatically?
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How do we fund them at this point, Magoo?
Gas taxes, and for the millionth time, those revenues are dropping as ICE vehicles continue to get better mpg, and electric vehicles don't pay any gas taxes
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How many EV 18 wheelers are on the road today delivering your food ?
The proposed tax is for electric vehicles, so 18 wheelers (of which I am a driver of) wouldn't pay it until they go electric, which realistically is probably 20 to 30 years away
I'm a truck driver, and semi's already pay the majority of fuel taxes as they get worse mileage than passenger cars (fleet average for a rig is 5 to 6 miles to the gallon), and drive more miles than passenger cars (average regional or OTR rig drives around 130,000 per year)
and now (with this "pilot program study" ) you will pay ALOT more...so not only the fuel tax...but an added mileage tax...this will kill owner operators (most which are middleclass)…..
everything the liberals do hurts the middleclass the most
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. And I’m done treating government edicts as legitimate; I give as much credence to laws and regulations as those in government do themselves. Which is to say, I don’t pay attention to what they say. I, however, will continue to practice the non-aggression principle until and unless they force my hand.
As technology improves in ways that make laws easier to enforce there is less of a need for those laws to be reasonable. You no longer have to buy in to it. They pass the law and whether you buy in to it or not they use technology to enforce it. Add "fortified" elections in to the mix and you can see why the government starts to figure they can just do whatever the hell they want regardless of people's opinions on it.
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and now (with this "pilot program study" ) you will pay ALOT more...so not only the fuel tax...but an added mileage tax...this will kill owner operators (most which are middleclass)…..
everything the liberals do hurts the middleclass the most
I'm a company driver, I don't pay for my own fuel
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