The left is once again going after the automobile industry by calling for new taxes on the already overtaxed drivers of America. An economist at the Congressional Budge Office suggested that the Federal government would start charging people based on their mileage. This would be done in order to generate more revenues to spend on highway projects. They obviously don’t see the flaws in that plan.
If they start taxing drivers to generate money for highway projects, drivers are going to be using the highways less and less. That’s like charging somebody a finger every time they wanted to buy a new ring.
Chad Shirley, CBO’s deputy assistant director for microeconomic studies, gave a presentation that shows federal gas tax revenues are falling short of federal spending on highway programs. Naturally, Shirley didn’t suggest less federal spending, but instead he offered three somewhat idiotic suggestions.
Read the suggestions on the next page.
Oregon is just going to raise tax 1.5 cents, they know it will be hard to monitor mileage
You know, Kevin, if the federal government was really dedicated to air quality, carbon, etc. reduction, they would want to continue to encourage electric cars, and one way to do that would be to do what Oregon is doing–increase the gas tax. That further encourages high efficiency and electric vehicles. In this case, the feds slipped up and showed their true colors. It’s all about tax revenue and nothing else.
Average gasoline price (USD) per U.S. gallon as of 3/21:
Average for the whole world– $3.73
USA 2.23
Kuwait 0.88
Saudi Arabia 0.97
Russia 2.02
Mexico 3.05
Costa Rica 3.28
China 3.46
Brazil 3.92
South Korea 4.42
Spain 4.93
Cuba 5.45
UK 5.69
Norway 6.61
See the whole list here:
http://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/
Next they will tax every toilet flush
Done even fuckin go there
Why in hell would you listen to an egg-head economist in the first place. They are all communists……….
The missing $ 40 million, to fix roads and bridges.