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A clear piss-poor excuse to tax everyone more

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Victor Khomenko

In Reply to: RE: They will be taxed. And hybrids, too. posted by ghost of olddude55 on January 03, 2023 at 04:19:35

I truly love that "fair share" baloney.

"Johnny jot got raped, so we are going to rape you too... you know... your fair share..."

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Well, what can you do? - ghost of olddude55 04:56:00 01/03/23 (5)
People want infrastructure spending. They want new roads, etc., and that stuff isn't free.
Fuel taxes are a dead end, because of EVs and because your neighbor who commutes to work and back in a full size pickup truck will go apeshit over higher gas prices that result from raising the fuel tax.
You can't tax booze, cigarettes, and/or gambling enough to pay for transportation, and the US has the highest building costs per mile in the world.
You know where I stand on this issue, Victor. My preference is that government looked for ways to get people out of their cars and into public transit. But I'm in the minority.

The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
- There is one simple answer: Line Item Veto - Victor Khomenko 07:30:09 01/03/23 (4)
  Unless we get that, it is going to continue to be bottomless pork barrel, with big portion of every bill being just paybacks to supporters.
  - For every Complex problem in the World, there is a simple solution .................... - Cut-Throat 07:52:04 01/03/23 (0)
    That won't work.
  - Most states already have it. - ghost of olddude55 07:39:19 01/03/23 (2)
    PA's governor has the power of line-item veto.
    But just what is it you would veto? Taxes to fund roads, or the roads themselves?
    
    The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
    - Before you get to stuff you need, cut out the pork - Victor Khomenko 08:00:39 01/03/23 (1)
      Estimates vary, but it looks like in a typical spending bill there are maybe 20% of attachments that don't need to be there, and that would not have any chance of being passed on their own, because they only benefit some small group.
      
      Simply cutting those would reduce our budget pressure, and free up our attention to address real issues.
      
      As far as any ADDITIONAL gas taxes, I am totally against them. ICE people are already paying them, so just put some rough equivalent on EV's.
      
      Calculating these on per-mile-driven basis sounds like a reasonable start.
      - The problem is much worse than that. - ghost of olddude55 08:26:30 01/03/23 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Before you get to stuff you need, cut out the pork posted by Victor Khomenko on January 03, 2023 at 08:00:39
        
        Besides, again you're only talking about the Federal level. Most governors, if not all, already have line-item veto and highway projects are administered at the state level. It hasn't made funding transportation any cheaper or easier.
        
        The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.

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