Republicans propose taxing EVs at 10x the rate gas cars pay, increasing deficit
Republicans propose taxing EVs at 10x the rate gas cars pay, increasing deficit
imho, the 'loss' of fuel tax is made up by having no tailpipe emissions fucking up the air.
until ev makes up more than half of the vehicles on the road and ice is legislatively deprecated with a sales cut-off set in stone, i think ev owners should get the benefit of no tax on its 'power source' as one of the incentives to switch to and keep using them over petrol-powered vehicles.
Nah, EVs put wear and tear on the road too
I'm curious how often you complain about the state of the roads you drive on. Girl taxes have already not kept up with the costs of maintaining the roads. Now there's a significant percentage not even paying them.
In theory I agree with you, but roads are heckin expensive. Gas taxes mostly/entirely go to road maintenance depending on where you are in the world.
We should absolutely charge a pollution tax on fuel as well, but given our current social structure and infrastructure, it would probably make our economy implode.
Let me guess, they want this but with a caveat of not including teslas in the tax increase.
they really do want to see the world burn, literally, not figuratively. They won't be happy until we're all dying from extreme heat.
We should ask why. Did they fuck up the economy and need new revenue?
Let me laugh for a solid minute here. I friggin' love these guys. They're going to make the entire country Detroit because they're such snowflakes that can't take competition. Hilarious.
You wish, I'd rather be in Detroit then anywhere in the south.
At least you can buy a house in Detroit. May not be a nice one, probably abandoned a decade ago, but there are options available.
Unlike the average new home price being $1 million or some shit Nationwide now that was reported a few days ago.
So the US becoming Detroit would be an improvement? Goddamn.
Some motherfuckers never got punched in the throat mouth enough when they were kids trying to be bullies
String up the traitors
In Ohio we already pay $200 additional for registering an EV compared to ICE. 🤦♂️
NJ has something like that as well.
Welp it’s going to be 400 now because the rich aren’t rich enough.
It's already been reved to $250
Take them tarrifs to 10000000x MAGAts.
Carbon is 666 element. They burn black demon blood locked away in the depths of the earth and shun clean energy from the divine light of the sun. Treat them like heretics.
Remove fuel taxes. Apply taxes to tires. Done and done.
You'd incentive people to make tires that lasted longer and that would be horrible.
But also
I do love it when Republicans ride into office on a wave of people screaming "ARGH! I HATE TAXES!" and then spend the first four months in office finding an exciting new way to raise people's taxes.
More than anything, I'm looking forward to all those Cybertruck owners getting the "Fell For It Again" award branded onto their foreheads.
Adjust taxes based on tread wear rating.
Eh...people already drive on tires well after they're too bald to be safe anymore. Taxing tires is just a great way to make sure that people replace them even less often.
Maybe increase vehicle registration fees? Charge connection fees to connect your driveway to a public street? Charge businesses per-space parking lot taxes? I dunno. This seems like a tricky problem to solve.
Why not apply to mileage instead? More miles on the roads means you use the infrastructure more
Tire wear is proportional to vehicle mileage and weight. A tire tax would effectively do the same thing while being easier to implement.
Incentivizes not replacing tires which is bad for safety and all.
Tires have limited mileage, so effectively the same result and you dont the gov invading your privacy.
Wait what? Aren’t CO2 emissions caused by burning fossil fuels? Why wouldn’t you want to tax those?
This isn't about CO2. I think the idea is that a lot of our funding for roads is based around the taxes for gasoline and diesel. Since EVe don't use either, they are damaging the roads at the same (or more due to their weight) but not providing the tax revenue for the maintenance work needed.
Moving to tires would apply the taxation to both vehicles types. I think it's a bit short sighted and tires are used for more than road vehicles; but at the same time so is gasoline (like yard equipment.)
That's how you end up with people driving on racing slicks and wire...
Track miles driven and tax based on that. No safety concerns of people driving on tires that should have been replaced.