Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who couldn’t get potholes fixed in South Bend when he was their mayor, said last week the idea of taxing miles driven “shows a lot of promise.”
That’s when furious voters, even Democrats, slammed the Biden administration for considering taxing motorists per mile.
Then within a day, Buttigieg was on CNN’s Jake Tapper telling him the idea wasn’t being discussed as part of a $3 trillion infrastructure bill, which is actually the Green New Deal and reparations. It will be money wasted on crazy far-left ideas that fix things not broken.
Federal gasoline taxes have failed to keep up with the demand for infrastructure projects, Buttigieg has crowed all week. However, he said nothing about getting rid of them. He isn’t replacing them, just adding on to them.
A mileage tax will even hurt drivers of electric vehicles.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg walked back the idea he bleated just days ago to tax drivers by the mile as a way to ensure drivers of electric cars pay more for wear and tear on roads. A lot of those vehicles they want to tax heavily are bringing us food and goods all of us need.
‘No, that’s not part of the conversation about this infrastructure bill,’ he said by Monday, after an uproar when asked about the idea on CNN’s ‘The Lead’ by host Jake Tapper, as President Joe Biden prepares to roll out his $3 trillion plan.
Never-too-honest Tapper called it ‘something of a backtrack’ and then moved on.
Buttigieg also ruled out an increase in the federal per-gallon gasoline tax.
“No,” he responded, indicating it won’t be in the infrastructure package. “I want to reiterate the president’s central commitment here. If you’re making less than $400,000 a year, this proposal will not involve a tax increase for you.”
That’s a lie too because canceling Trump’s tax cuts puts huge tax increases on the middle class because they are the people who benefitted the most from those cuts.
In addition, corporations will either send their funds overseas or will pass the costs down to consumers — mostly the lower and middle classes.
Yes, Virginia, Biden is raising taxes on everyone.
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If a state as California accomplish an entire electric transportation sector, then what happens if there is an extended power outage.
Just realize that taxes are also taxed. For example, there are alcohol taxes in many States based on ABV. You then pay sales tax on those alcohol taxes.
Those pothole patching Recovery Act signs provided by Chicago Jesus were everywhere around the glorious people’s republic of South Bendover circa 2010AB (After Barack).
If there are some left they could just stencil over with build it back better, there might be some left by the Solyndra dumpster but it is highly unlikely.
These central planning geniuses probably think that the signs are magic and the potholes will fill in themselves.
Their dreams of world dominion will evaporate like a faculty lounge fart.
Petey Butt will be exempt from the rules made for the little people just like reflective pond medal tossing czar comrade kommissar Kerry.