New pay-per-mile scheme would boost taxes 250 percent

[Meister]

I think this administration is trying to get the taxes up to the level of those other socialist leaning top tier nations. We can't be an exceptional nation any longer, we just need to get in line with the rest of the world.

 

[Seawytch]

So that explains this. Let's see, if we need to raise the Highway Trust Fund $44 billion, and if the US profits more than the oil companies, then all we have to do is sit back and do nothing. The US government will get that much alone from Exxon by the end of this year.

Yup...if it is true that the government makes more than the oil companies and Exxon Mobile profits are in the 40 billion dollar range, that's right! Cool.

Oil companies do not make 18.4 cents profit per gallon of gasoline.
The government does.

And Exxon made $40 billion in profit. If Uncle Sam gets more than them, the Highway Trust Fund should be in the black, right?

 

[onecut39]

Fed gas tax needs to be raised, not scrapped. And Obama needs to shut his fucking yap about oil company "profits". Even now, the U.S. profits way more on a gallon of gas than any oil company ever did.

And while he's at it- remove the $40+ billion in O&G taxes that are in his proposed budget.

Oh how little we know!!!

Big Oil?s Banner Year | Center for American Progress

 

[Nova78]

New pay-per-mile scheme would boost taxes 250 percent

Obama - I will not raise taxes on the middle Class - LIAR

The Large in charge keep figuring out ways to feed the Monster -"THE GOVERNMENT" right now it is fed 4 billion dollars a day of borrowed money beyond what it already takes in

 

[Nova78]

The Taxpayers should charge Obama a pay per mile everytime his ass takes off for another vacation.

 

[Nova78]

Oregon, for instance, is among several states that are taking a hard look at the idea, reports Paul Eisenstein of the Detroit Bureau. As proposed in the Oregon legislature, drivers could be charged 0.85 cents per mile through 2015, with the figure jumping to 1.85 cents per mile by 2018. The bill, for the moment, appears stalled. Texas and Minnesota are reportedly also taking a look.

Mileage fees would take the place of gasoline taxes, which will decrease as more fuel-efficient and electric cars are introduced. The Detroit Bureau says the typical American motorist getting a combined 25 mpg today pays just under 2 cents a mile in gas taxes.

Still, the Big Brother aspects of taxing by the mile are sure to make any such plan an uphill battle.

 

[uscitizen]

A per mile tax is very conservative and libertarian. If you use it you pay for what you use.
there is no free lunch.

 

[Meister]

Fed gas tax needs to be raised, not scrapped. And Obama needs to shut his fucking yap about oil company "profits". Even now, the U.S. profits way more on a gallon of gas than any oil company ever did.

And while he's at it- remove the $40+ billion in O&G taxes that are in his proposed budget.

Oh how little we know!!!

Big Oil?s Banner Year | Center for American Progress

You're right, $0.10 a gallon profit is just obscene.

 

[Dr Grump]

I think this administration is trying to get the taxes up to the level of those other socialist leaning top tier nations. We can't be an exceptional nation any longer, we just need to get in line with the rest of the world.

It has been a while since you have been truly exceptional anyway.

What are the top tax rates of these so-called 'socialist' countries?

 

[uscitizen]

I think this administration is trying to get the taxes up to the level of those other socialist leaning top tier nations. We can't be an exceptional nation any longer, we just need to get in line with the rest of the world.

It has been a while since you have been truly exceptional anyway.

What are the top tax rates of these so-called 'socialist' countries?

They have to be over 100%!

 

[OKTexas]

Pay per mile isn't anything new. Trucks have been paying that in addition to fuel tax for years.

Really, got a link for that?

 

[Meister]

I think this administration is trying to get the taxes up to the level of those other socialist leaning top tier nations. We can't be an exceptional nation any longer, we just need to get in line with the rest of the world.

It has been a while since you have been truly exceptional anyway.

What are the top tax rates of these so-called 'socialist' countries?

What's the price for a litre in your country? Is it more than the 18.4% that we pay?
I bet it's a lot higher than what we pay.

The further left we go the less exceptional we are becoming....so yes, one of your rare moments of clarity.

 

[Meister]

I think this administration is trying to get the taxes up to the level of those other socialist leaning top tier nations. We can't be an exceptional nation any longer, we just need to get in line with the rest of the world.

It has been a while since you have been truly exceptional anyway.

What are the top tax rates of these so-called 'socialist' countries?

They have to be over 100%!

Aren't we talking about fuel tax?????

 

[uscitizen]

It has been a while since you have been truly exceptional anyway.

What are the top tax rates of these so-called 'socialist' countries?

They have to be over 100%!

Aren't we talking about fuel tax?????

Ohh I thought it was income tax ...
Sorry..

Aren't we still buying fuel for Iraq and paying contractors to haul it for them?

 

[boedicca]

Anyone who paid a premium for a hybrid thinking they would save $$$ on taxes is a chump. The tax per mile thing was something anyone could see coming. And it's a double for the government. Not only do they collect more money, they have an excuse to track drivers' movements. It's a totalitarian wet dream: Total Surveillance Society.

 

[uscitizen]

We pay a flat per gal tax of about .18 per gallon on fuel in the USA.
And there is typically .10-.20 per gal local and state added onto that.

Just drop the per gallon tax and charge the state sales tax on it.

 

[Dr Grump]

I think this administration is trying to get the taxes up to the level of those other socialist leaning top tier nations. We can't be an exceptional nation any longer, we just need to get in line with the rest of the world.

It has been a while since you have been truly exceptional anyway.

What are the top tax rates of these so-called 'socialist' countries?

What's the price for a litre in your country? Is it more than the 18.4% that we pay?
I bet it's a lot higher than what we pay.

The further left we go the less exceptional we are becoming....so yes, one of your rare moments of clarity.

It varies between about $1.34 and $1.70. But some of that cost is due to transport...

I don't think that Obama or the left have anything to do with your country becoming less exceptional. I actually don't think you were any more exceptional than any other western country in the first place. Maybe militarily....

 

[OKTexas]

I wonder if they have read the Constitution lately, a mileage tax would be an unconstitutional direct tax and I doubt they would be able to get an amendment to get it passed. The one fact that seems to be forgotten is smaller, more fuel efficient, cars do less damage to the roads, so the funds required for maintenance should be lower also.

 

[uscitizen]

We pay more state tax a gallon of milk than on a gallon of gas in many states.

 

[uscitizen]

I wonder if they have read the Constitution lately, a mileage tax would be an unconstitutional direct tax and I doubt they would be able to get an amendment to get it passed. The one fact that seems to be forgotten is smaller, more fuel efficient, cars do less damage to the roads, so the funds required for maintenance should be lower also.

Yes vehicle weight should be figured in.
The big diesel duallies damage the road far more than a yugo.

Again a paygo system. NO go no pay.