Democrats lie about taxes they will impose

 Legal Insurrection:

It appears that the Democrats plan to tax essentially everything that moves, or at least they are paving the ground to do so.

There is a proposed pilot program for a mileage tax tucked away in the infrastructure bill.

The U.S. Senate passed President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill with bipartisan support from 19 Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Buried in the 2,700 page infrastructure package is a pilot program for a vehicle mileage tax.

A vehicle mileage tax, or vehicle miles traveled fee, would charge motorists a fee based on how many miles they drive. Simply put, if you drive a vehicle, you would pay money to the government for every mile you drive. The time period can vary, but is typically a vehicle miles travel fee is measured in a one year period. A vehicle mileage traveled fee can be used to raise revenue for transportation and infrastructure projects.

The infrastructure bill includes $125 million to fund pilot programs to test a national vehicle miles traveled fee.

  • National pilot program: This includes $10 million each year from 2022 to 2026 for a national vehicles miles traveled fee pilot program.
  • State and local pilot program: This includes $75 million provided from the federal government to regional, state and local transportation agencies. The breakdown is $15 million provided each year from 2022 to 2026.

Here is how the program would work….theoretically.

The language in the bill calls for the pilot to include people from all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico. This includes drivers of both commercial and personal vehicles. All participants would volunteer for the pilot.

Participants would keep paying the gas tax, but would also start paying a per-mile user fee. Those rates would be established by the Department of the Treasury, and once collected, the revenue would go to the Highway Trust Fund. The government would then refund the costs for these participants.

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I do not know who would volunteer for this scheme.  Certainly not me.  It looks like it is a program to capture taxes from electric car owners eventually.  I think it sounds too big brother for most folks.

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