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Tuesday, February 07, 2023

State Transportation Committee to hear case for per-mile driving tax vs. gas tax

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--Two groups supporting a tax based on how much Tennesseans drive will speak before the Tennessee General Assembly's Senate Transportation Committee. 

The Reason Foundation and The Eastern Transportation Coalition will give presentations to the committee on Wednesday. According to the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) directs the U.S. Department of Transportation to create a per-mile usage fee pilot program.

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Not just no, but hell no - and with as little as I drive, I'd probably benefit from a mileage based tax, but it's none of the State's business how much I drive and where I go.
To accomplish this, they'd either have me go in every year and get an odometer count which won't be able to differentiate between in-state or out-of-state driving, or I'd have to have a state-mandated GPS installed in my vehicles allowing the State to monitor my traveling.

38 comments:

  1. I absofuckinglutely guarantee that a "mileage tax" will be in addition to the existing per gallon tax not as a replacement. Once the government gets a tax in place it never gets rid of that tax. It only adds to it. Want a solution to the problem of taxes? Burn the state house down and hang all the politicians. Nothing else will solve the problem.

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    1. concurrence achieved.

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    2. seems like the same thing to me. you pay by the mile or the gallon, what's the difference? I could see a pay by the mile tax for electric cars including hybrids since they don't burn as much gas per mile.

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  2. I absofuckinglutely guarantee that a "mileage tax" will be in addition to the existing per gallon tax not as a replacement. Once the government gets a tax in place it never gets rid of that tax. It only adds to it. Want a solution to the problem of taxes? Burn the state house down and hang all the politicians. Nothing else will solve the problem.

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    1. I believed you the first time.

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    2. That's on me. It's not the commenter, it's a google glitch. Notice the times are identical? I get a few duplicate comments every day and usually delete one of them. This one got by.

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  3. fake registrations will go through the roof. They will claim they thought the registrations were real and judges will let them slide. And then you will drive for free if you are below a certain income. Because it would be discrimination to tax poor people.

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    1. "Because it would be discrimination to tax poor *dark* people."
      FIFY

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  4. Oh, HELL no too! TAX, that is the only thing besides perversions and little kids these representatives have on their encephalitic minds. Gallows assembly kits can't come fast enough!

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  5. It'd be some sort of GPS tracker with transmitter to report back to DMV plugged into your OBDII port....but they'll keep collecting a gas tax too.....cause all them old cars without the OBD port.

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    1. And DMV will happily share real-time location and speed info with law enforcement.

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  6. Agreed.
    To every Good Idea, there's a Dark Side.

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  7. The gas tax IS a per-mile tax! The more you use, the more you pay. No, this is all about the electric cars they're jamming down America's throat. No gas use, no gas tax. and mind you, the way politicians roll, it'll end up being a per-mile tax AND a gas tax!!! The whole idea being if you continue to run your vehicle on dinosaur squeezins, you get taxed DOUBLE!

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    1. I wouldn't put any of that past that nest of RINOs in Nashville.
      We may have to organize a group of people circling the Capitol building and blowing their horns, just like several years ago when the bastards proposed an income tax.

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    2. Collect highway tax money by placing meters on the bastard electric car owners electric car chargers - problem solved.

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  8. No way in hell. Just another bait-and-switch con job from the government that will never be satisfied with the money they're given to waste. Usually governments get away with adding a new form of taxation by promising to reduce an existing form of taxation. Before the gullible fools who approve the new tax figure out what happened, both the new and the old tax rates BOTH increased.

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  9. Lots of states have those already, called EZ-Pass.

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  10. “Unintended Consequences”....
    Ed357

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  11. Ding ding ding.. surveillance of your driving.
    EZ Pass will mail you a ticket if it calculates you were speeding between onramp and offramp. No thanks.

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  12. does anyone remember a time when the gov't stopped a tax ?
    never happen. they just want a new tax to add to the old gas tax.
    like they say, GW and his buddies would be stacking bodies by now.

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    1. Well about ten years ago, the Fedz dropped the Luxury Tax on Long-Distance phone calls, which was put in place to finance the Spanish-American War.

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  13. 15 minute open air prison. The brainwaves that want to implement these 'ideas', need an middle of the night blanket party.

    Chutes Magoo

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  14. Per-mile tax? How 'bout a Politician-per-word tax, where we impose ever-increasing penalties on politicians who demonstrate lack of constitutional restrictions on them, with increased penalties each time they demonstrate they haven't learned their lesson yet? Until they reach the point of no return, where their deconstruction of liberty is not worth the effort needed to rehabilitate them any further, and then we lower the guillotine, or drop the trapdoor . . .

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  15. Baby steps to get us used to ever more control. Sort of ease you into being ready for digital currency, which is the ultimate control in today's world.

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  16. They've used up - and more - the present revenue. Out of cash and more illegals and diversities to support. Plus reparations. Per mileage tax is just the beginning of a bunch of new "fees".

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  17. If you have Google Maps enabled, Location turned on or use Google as your GPS you can see everywhere you've traveled, where you've stopped, how long you stayed there and the miles traveled. Open Google maps, click your profile then your timeline. Some additional apps may also require this information. Replace any POL/POS of either party that even thinks of supporting a per mile tax!

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  18. Taxes will then be on a sliding scale, much like the fed income tax.

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  19. And I thought Tennessee was one of the free states. Guess I need to start looking for somewhere else to retire.

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    1. Do, please do we are full. Full of people from NY, CA, and IL.

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    2. You do realize I moved out here from California, right?

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  20. They are trying this shit in Oregon. They need to try some shit that doesn't involve tracking us and then charging us. Our highways are a disaster so not quite sure what they are spending the money on. State = Waste taxpayer money big time. FTG's.

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  21. Every year I have to go in and get the annual vehicle safety and emissions inspection done. Every year the vehicle mileage is recorded. They've already got that shit on file. Only thing that's not proven is the mileage driven out of state. Long time ago on my commercial truck I had a fuel tax compliance decal on the door. Right next to it was the Regional Fuel Tax Agreement sticker that allowed me access to neighboring states. Prior too the Regional sticker I had one for each neighboring state. Had to submit quarterly mileage reports o each of those states, along with tax for mileage driven in that state on fuel that was not purchased in that state. Report was due in less than thirty days from the close of the quarter. Send in your report on the thirty first day and you're hit with a substantial penalty. Logistical nightmare. Don't miss those days at all.

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    1. This right here. Commercial trucks crossing state lines have been paying milage tax per state for a long time. When they came for me you said nothing, now they come for you.

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    2. Kinda hard to say something when you don't know about it.

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  22. We don't have safety or emission testing here. Even when I register my vehicles nobody goes out to check the mileage.

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  23. what about bicycles??? who is paying to build and maintain all those bike lanes??
    they get their own lanes, yet act like they own the whole road if there isn't one where they want to ride. time for cyclists to start pulling their own weight and stop freeloading.

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  24. Here in Ohio we pay .28 per gallon which consists of 5 levies some of which are distributed to counties and municipalities! Of course that tax will not be erased and replaced. With welfare hubs like CLE, CIN, COL and TOL, no municipality or county is going to give up that largesse.

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  25. By the way folks, in newer cars, there is already a GPS tracker device hooked between your ignition and starter. However, this being America (greatest country on Earth), there is already a video out that shows you how to remove that and connect your ignition directly back to your starter. They are going to need that device to tax you, aren't they?

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