This is a specific example that needs to be drilled down quickly so that people with only a cursory interest in politics can understand how it impacts them. Biden’s $1400 stimulus checks are useless, literally wiped-out, when compared with the increase in gasoline prices already in place as part of the Biden energy policy.
Gas prices have already jumped $1/gal in most areas as a result of Biden killing the oil production energy sector. Factor in the increased transportation costs for goods and services, including the costs associated with deliveries of home meals, Uber rides, products delivered, airline charges; and the gas price increase hits the family checkbook far beyond the $1400 provided for stimulus.
Add to that charge and the increases in electricity prices, together with the increase in product costs that are based on petroleum (rubber, plastics, containers etc), and you can see how the increased cost of Biden’s ridiculous energy policy hits families even harder. But wait…. it gets worse…. If that were already not enough of a problem, Biden is now proposing a mileage tax on top of a gasoline tax increase that will hit the middle class much harder. [SEE Video at 01:30]
The middle-class commutes to work much more than all other sectors. Any increase in gas prices, gasoline taxes or mileage taxes hits the blue-collar worker at a disproportionate rate. A proposal to install a mileage tax does nothing but add another cost onto the American middle-class.
This is an issue of leftist policy, as the far-left now move to push their climate change agenda and simultaneously push federal infrastructure spending. Of course, in order to keep advancing their severe leftist agenda, the democrats have to pretend not to know things.
(Via The Hill) […] Biden said during his first solo press conference on Thursday that he will announce the $3 trillion proposal on Friday in Pittsburgh.
The next day, his Transportation head said a mileage tax could be one way to help pay for the plan.
“I think that shows a lot of promise,” Buttigieg said. “If we believe in that so-called user-pays principle, the idea that part of how we pay for roads is you pay based on how much you drive.”
“The gas tax used to be the obvious way to do it; it’s not anymore,” he continued. “So, a so-called vehicle miles traveled tax or a mileage tax, whatever you want to call it, could be the way to do it.” (read more)
There has also been a plan waiting for implementation that will charge you at the pump for mileage you drive.
Sin taxes increase will come soon and $1.00 increase in gas in the last 45 days and you can bet gas will go above $4.00 very soon, And with little Alfred E Newman bootinthebutt in charge of the Communist Chao Transportation position hold on tight
Americans deserve what they voted for. Maybe when taxes get too painful they’ll throw the communist Democrats out. But don’t count on it. 75% of voters are morons easily manipulated by propaganda. And besides, the vote tabulation will be rigged forever more now since it was so easy to get away with the rigging in 2020.
“Americans deserve what they voted for…”
Then we deserve President Trump.
We voted to re-elect President Trump. The communists stole him from us.
…like communists do.
Thank you! What a bullshit post that we get “what we deserve”.
Megadittos!
Thank you, gldn2th. That hackneyed “deserve what they voted for” doesn’t fit this situation at all.
Burn.
We didn’t vote for the imbecile! We voted for President Trump. The election was stolen and there is evidence of that. Where have you been? YOu must live in another country with highly censored and biased news. The GOPe, judges and officials wouldn’t hear it and that includes our so called “Supreme Court” who I have no respect for after that. No, didn’t deserve that. Not at all.
If H.R. 1 passes, then DEMS will be on control forever.
Excuse me, the election results are FAKE! The duly elected President of the United States was denied his office.
We didn’t vote for this. This is a result of the overthrow of America.
They tried to get that mileage tax through in liberal Illinois and it went down in flames. If they try this at a national level, it will literally put Trump back in the White House.
well….that and the plan to fly immigrants to the Canadian border for processing. Biden is like a little popcorn popper full of bad ideas.
I hope so
Do it idiots. Make it painful for voters.
Do it! Go full blown commie and take off your mask.
Pete Butterjugs is one sorry sap.
We haven’t started feeling the real pain from the stolen election. Screw your shoes on.
According to my calculations June/July will be explosive.
I hope they do go with majority vote in Senate and go full blown commie.
Low-info voters must feel the pain. It needs to hurt.
But they won’t. The trick to implementing communism it has be slow. One bad thing at the time.
If they get total control, the pretend fights will be over and that is not how they split the power. They need to keep us always hopeful to get out and vote.
The sham must appear real.
Just the rising gas prices alone will likely trigger home sales and foreclosures in the suburbs and rural areas, just like it did during the Obama administration. Of course, this time around, there are even more people living in the suburbs and rural areas due to the flight from metro areas as a result of last year’s riots. I would venture to guess that many of those who fled the metro areas for the suburbs are already stretched to their limit on what they can afford to spend each month. If they still work in the metro area, the cost to commute to work each weekday could end up bankrupting them, or forcing them to sell and move back to the metro area..
The big pain will come with losses of retirement and home equities.
Biden’s got a whopper of a plan for the suburbs, too. We are living in very dark times right now.
Yep, HUD’s plans outlined by Castro in 2016 figure to be off and running soon
We will have a new virus by next year. More culling will ensue.
All part of the plan. Make the population move to the metro areas where they can be more easily controlled and manipulated. A former governor of Maryland had this plan and called it ‘Smart Growth’. Would be easier to implement now because they can use climate change as the reason to make it harder to live in outlying and rural areas. Your piece of heaven in the countryside is reserved only for the elites who can afford it.
People are still working from home, and will continue to at least only come into the office a few days a week, tops. Some have straight-telecommute jobs to other metro areas by now (I have a few friends in this category). This won’t hurt as much as in the past.
And don’t forget the left’s plan to push poor people into the suburbs. Low-income and multi-family housing. This increased transportation cost will be a fig leaf to force public transportation into the suburbs, which we have fought off every time it’s tried.
Nurses still must travel to keep people alive in the hospitals and elsewhere. This will literally kill the commuting nurse and the little bit of $ they earn saving people’s lives.
my issue with a tax per mile is it does not compensate for weight of the vehicle.my 3200 lb car does way less damage to the roads then a 30 ton truck.i would rather see a tax per weight of the vehicle,the weight of the vehicle is listed on your title so people will not be able to cheat the system.AND a special monitor would not be needed.every time you go to renew your plates you pay the road use tax,say for example .02 cents per lb.so my 3200 lb car i would pay a 64 dollar tax per year.
There’s nothing reasonable or fair about communism. It is what it is.
Communism is based on hatred. They don’t care about people. All they want to do is play god. God is their worst enemy. At some point He will have had enough and He will bring the hammer down. THOSE are people who “deserve” the wrath of God and most likely for eternity.
Your issue should be there is a tax per mile period. It is how the Commies work. They get you to complain about the truckers so they finally tax the truckers to make you happy. The end result is a tax when you should had been fighting the tax and not the truckers.
Commies work this scheme on everything they do and dummies fall for it every time.. It is like two gophers with their tails tied in a 5-gal bucket. They fight to the death when all they had to do is together get out of the 5-gallon bucket.
The higher gas expense will lead to higher prices on everything!
Same thing with privatizing Air Traffic Control based of fee for departure instead of taxing aviation fuel like we do now. Taxing fuel is much fairer for many reasons.
The goal is not to be fair but impoverish us. There is nothing fair about that when it is unnecessary.
Physics does the compensation you desire.
State registration tax covers this, since states care for the roads. None of these federal taxes will actually go to their proposed “transportation” target.
Except that it would be a waste of a perfectly good cream pie, doesn’t Buttley’s simpering face just invite one? Or maybe just a simple smack?
This is what you get for spending 40 years blaming the US oil industry every time the market price for gasoline goes up. Does it not occur to anyone that the oil industry is the only industry which is required to post the full cost of a gallon of gas without revealing how much of that cost is really just Ste and Federal gasoline taxes. The average State tax is in the neighborhood of 30 cents on a gallon and the Federal tax is 18 cents a gallon. The damned shirts we wear are made by using petroleum products. Most plastics are made from petroleum, yes even the cheap ass new plastic bumper on your car and truck. Batteries are made from electricity produced by natural gas. Now we think that Government policies are driving gas prices up. If you go along with bullshit it becomes a smelly fact. All taxes are just more bullshit. And facts are rarely funny.
Didn’t JoeBama promise not to raise taxes on anyone making under 400k? A gas tax, whether by how far you drive or per gallon is a tax and it hits just about everybody regardless of income. Ht hits flyover country most as there are not many alternatives to driving. Also once implemented a gas tax never gets repealed. JoeBama doesn’t just exaggerate or embellish, he’s a flat out liar.
This is the problem with having a demented president that knows darn well he won’t be around in four years so he can screw us all good and not have to worry about re-election. Pretty sure that was the dem plan from the beginning or recruiting Dementia Joe..
I keep saying… People (on our side at least, who are aware of what’s going on) will not revolt and boycott FB, Amazon, Hollywood, NBA, NFL etc because life is way too comfortable. We have it good. Many have so much to eat we are overweight fat and happy.
Start taking away that comfort, make it painful and people will revolt. On both sides. Take away our way of life and that will cause people to act.
We ( as a country, most people) will accept lockdown tyranny or anything else as long as we get to keep our smart phones, TV shows, shopping and everything that feels good.
So commies better not go too far or it will finally backfire.
You’re absolutely right Kleen… push too far, too fast and they’ll do the job of uniting the American people.
If Obama has his way we will become Obamazuela. It’s what he wants.
President Obama’s “promise” that under his energy plan, “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gases,” Obama said. “Coal power plants, natural gas, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money onto consumers.”
They want us back to being dependent on foreign countries that really aren’t our friends… .
They want to line their pockets with the difference between $2.00 & $5.00 gas.
Exfiltration of wealth using “Environmental” concerns.
What is the difference (to the “Environment”) if one burns a barrel of American oil or a barrel of foreign oil? None, I say.
The only tangible difference is the “Cost-to Americans” of the oil.
Someone, here at the Treehouse (awhile back-sorry I can not give proper credit) offered an analogy for “The Big Club”…
-A group of people, standing in a big circle, shoving money into the pockets of the individual in front of them.-
In this case, the difference in $2.00 gas vs $5.00 gas is soon to be “making the rounds”.
Another Treeper (same apology as above) said…
“We are all free range HUMANS on a tax farm”
A sorry state… indeed.
technically speaking burning a barrel of foreign oil is worse for the environment than burning a barrel of american oil, because that foreign oil had who knows how much more oil burned to get it here.
The funny thing is I bet if you actually measured it, there’d be more gasses emitted by this new policy, than if we kept producing our own.
Agree, we obviously do it cleaner and safer, but it’s not about the environment. That’s just an excuse.
Buttgig is notorious for not being able to manage filling potholes in his tiny city of of South Bend, Indiana that he was mayor of. All DEMS like him can think of is over spending and taxing everyone for it. He will be a total disaster. Nothing good will come of him.
globalist austerity ahead as the Elites grin with goulish delight!
When everyone realizes the free lunch is paid for with rising prices, the left will pivot and blame price gougers and speculators. They will institute wage and price controls to cover up the idiocy of their policy. Then the shortages begin….
and government cheese.
And it’s likely not even as much about taxes as about getting the foot in the door for constant tracking with that teeth of government at the ready. With that control, there would likely follow the ability to leapfrog from that from all manner of “crimes” and penalties handcuffing whoever they would. Things certainly appear moving down a certain path.
GAG. WHY was there no Shepard Smith warning?
There is an added FEATURE/BENEFIT for this mileage tax. They get to TRACK YOU wherever you go. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Tell them: WE WILL NOT COMPLY!
The nanosecond chomo joe implements these taxes on the wealthy, the wealthy will pack their stuff, take their money and leave the US, and with no wealthy left to tax, brain dead joe will be standing there with a stupid look on his face( like always) and his thumb up his ass, wondering what happened. Democrats are utterly retard incompetents when it comes to economics, budget and supply and demand. Then there’s the war thing, 2 weeks in office and that piece of shit, “ plugs” was bombing Syria. President Trump kept us out of all that crap.