Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are moving to create a motorist tax as part of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
“National motor vehicle per-mile user fee pilot,” a pilot program to tax drivers based on their vehicle mileage, was slipped into a section of the legislation.
The current draft legislation requires Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to provide recommendations to Congress three years after the pilot starts, allowing lawmakers to decide then whether to officially impose the tax, Just the News reports. This will allow the to hire only the best experts like those at this website General.
The program would target “passenger motor vehicles, light trucks, and medium and heavy-duty trucks,” and suggest fees that “may vary between vehicle types and weight classes to reflect estimated impacts on infrastructure, safety, congestion, the environment, or other related social impacts.”
“The Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of the treasury, and consistent with the recommendations of the advisory board, shall establish a pilot program to demonstrate a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee to restore and maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund and to improve and maintain the surface transportation system,” the bill reads.
“The objectives of the pilot program are 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; and to provide recommendations relating to the adoption and implementation of a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee.”
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We’ll tell you what we want you to know it is, but a caveat to the American citizen from Nancy Pelosi—we have to pass it before you can see what is in it. They talk about transparency like they talk about everything else—they say the words they think we want to hear and the whole time they are plotting behind our backs.
As much as we know they are lying about this infrastructure crap, if we could get a copy of the bill and read it, it would probably shock even us. Liars and swindlers in Congress and another in the White House. No wonder we are in the shape we are in.
I can see exactly what is in it. Transportation costs are the majority of what prices your food. People are trapped into eating every bit as they are trapped inside Democrat run city ghettos. Once they control where you live, what you eat, who medicates you, what you can afford to eat, you in reality have become their slaves. Get ready for food prices to skyrocket which will harm mostly disenfranchised lower income people who vote Democrat. Just another Pelosi offer of the immediate gratification, followed by the long-term destruction of America, even if it means part of their party of Marxist defined expendable useful idiots. This is just another attempt to limit THE PEOPLE’s freedom of movement, in order to lock them into electoral submission and steal elections every bit as they steal your personal property and incomes. Have we all forgot that it is the Communist agenda to eliminate personal property for the state to collectively control? Now you know just who and what these foreign Communists disguised as American Democrats are all about! And you were dumb enough to vote them into power over you? Big Brother and now Big Sister are watching over you, where you go, how many miles you travel. It’s Orwell’s 1984, arriving 37 years too late.
Food prices are already going up and I don’t see them going down with the increase in fuel prices.
If anything, they will KEEP RISING.. Even IF/when the price of gas comes down.
Yeah, try and find the bill on any web site dealing with the Senate or the Congress. There are 25 or so bills dealing with infrastructure except this one. Got hosed on the O Bam a Care one let’s get to our representatives and tell them no.
I have often thought, that EVERY BILL congress wishes to pass, should have a REQUIREMENT THAT EVERYONE WISHING TO vote on it, have SIGNED OFF ON READING IT, under penalty of perjury..
AND GIVE EVERYONE THE DAY THEY VOTE ON IT, a pop quiz on What is IN IT…
“SO senator bill, what does it stay on page 34, paragraph 2 to paragraph 4?”
“So representative Ill.. Does it or does it not say, at the end of paragraph 8, on page 77, XYZ”..
AND THOSE WHO FAIL said pop quiz, LOSE THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE on it!
There is no way to enforce such a tax. It would rely on self reporting the number of miles you drive, and there is no way most of us would do that. They already control our communication, now they want to control our movement. This is communism 101. If your representative votes for this, send them to the unemployment line.
OnStar, cell phone, EZ-pass, trucks with satellite communications, which one do you think they cannot track now?
They may be able to track commercial miles, but none of those can tell them what manner of transportation you are using, so just shut off on star and your cell phone.
Seeing as how they have tech, to TURN YOUR PHONE on remotely (same for on star most likely), how will just turning it off, do much?
Most of us already HAVE computer chips through out our cars, tracking our mileage, for insurance, for MPG tracking, for map apps etc..
SO IMO THEY DON’T need us to do anything.. JUST STEAL THE INFO without asking our permission to give it up.
Add to that, DO WE NOT ALREADY PAY “Per mile driven”, VIA GAS TAXES!
A bipartisan bill! Yep, the RINO traitors like Mitt are at it again. Secondly, taxing the trucks on the highway increases prices like food and other goods. Jimmy Carter’s inflation is coming to a theater near you, via Joe Stalin Biden and the communist Democrats!
This bill would specifically target those who live in rural areas. For those who live in rural states it is normal for a trip to the grocery store, local town, and church to be 12-20 miles. A trip to a regional medical center can easily be 60+ miles. A drive to a major city for medical care or shopping can be over 150 miles each way.
A tax like this will make these trips cost prohibitive for the average person. This isn’t about earning money for infrastructure it is about controlling people and punishing those who are more conservative. The ‘fly over’ parts of the country will be most affected.
And what’s the bet this WON’T get applied to the “Black majority, Inner cities”…
The slaves living in misery behind the iron curtain during the cold war knew about lack of mobility and freedom. And now the communist party here formerly known as the democrats are showing their hand. “Mileage taxes”, electric cars limited by range and endurance, prohibitive electric costs resulting from unreliable and insufficient green energy sources on a weak grid, coupled with the higher cost of living for everyone will soon be the fruits of the communist party’s goal of hobbling the nations people’s movements . Add to that control of the media by absorption in the ministry of propaganda and blocking alternative sources relaying the truth as “haters” and “misinformation” and you see the big picture.
And that’s an optimistic view of out future under democrap/communist control. Another, less optimistic view, is that they just kill anyone who dares to disagree with them.
You have a choice. Vote for bidn, or get shot.. Would you like to vote for biden now??
the new world order is here and the demoncrats are front and center for the movement in america.
i really appreciate the people who voted demoncrat i just love high taxes low wages inflation high food prices high gas prices.
thanks alot.
I wonder how many of those who DID vote dem, are REGRETTING IT now?? AND IF they had the chance to not just take BACK that vote, but vote for Trump, would GLADLY DO SO?