Joe Biden wants former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg to be Transportation Secretary but not everyone is a fan of that idea.
Biden said this week the 38-year-old can be “a new voice” in the fight against economic inequality, institutional racism and climate change, The Associated Press reported.
Biden said Buttigieg offers “a new voice with new ideas determined to move past old politics.”
“Pete Buttigieg’s signature transportation idea is to impose massive taxes on carbon dioxide, which would likely begin by adding 20 percent – or 40 cents per gallon – to the price of gasoline, with even higher tax hikes imposed with each new year,” warns James Taylor, president of Heartland Institute. “Buttigieg apparently misses the days of $4 gasoline, and he will do his best to make sure government brings it back to drain the budgets of American households.”
Taylor adds that Buttigieg’s carbon dioxide tax “will cost the average American household several hundred dollars per year in higher gasoline costs, likely rising to $1,000 or more per year in the near future.”
“Households would additionally have to pay higher electricity bills and higher prices for goods and services throughout the economy,” Taylor continues. “The role of a transportation secretary should be to make transportation more efficient and affordable, not more difficult and expensive. Pete Buttigieg fails that test.”
Buttigieg ran against Biden for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, but the former mayor suspended his campaign prior to Super Tuesday and endorsed Biden. That led to speculation that Biden might offer Buttigieg a job in a potential Biden administration.
The Transportation Department helps oversee the nation’s highway system, planes, trains and mass transit.
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With the onslaught of socialist tax increases, Covid closings and job killing regulations $4 gas may not prove to be a big concern, since most Americans probably won’t be able to afford to own a car anyway.
OR if they can, they won’t be driving it much anyway.
We can pull the cars with Horses until the EPA stops for pollution of the freeways.
Oh Pete, you being Secretary of Transportation will give you authority to, “fight against economic inequality, institutional racism and climate change” Oh, how warm and fuzzy. Please send me a Barbie Doll, so I can hug it, while I am in my safe space.
Liberals have never met a tax they didn’t like…especially those that really hit the middle and lower classes.
This sort of tax on fuel is going to hit those with limited pocketbooks the worst. Fuel to get to work, to run the older car because they can’t afford a new one (my youngest car is a 2005), cost of groceries, etc.
All those bleeding heart liberals who voted for Biden so that ‘poor people’ would be represented just gave them all a kick in the teeth. Thanks for nothing.
AND NOTE, any tax they put in place, even supposedly temporary ones, STAY ON INDEFINITELY…