Buried in the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" in the U.S. Senate is approval for the Department of Transportation to test a new federal tax on every mile driven by individual Americans.
To address the need for additional revenue for surface transportation infrastructure and a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee.
Although the new tax is described as a pilot program and would initially rely upon "Volunteers" representing all 50 states, the infrastructure measure would also require the Treasury Department to establish a mechanism to collect motor vehicle per-mile user fees from the participants.
The presence of the pilot program to tax drivers directly for every mile driven reflects the growing problem presented to federal officials by the success of environmental measures they've implemented since the 1990s to encourage more fuel-efficient driving.
"Making it impossibly expensive to use infrastructure is a perfect addition to a fake infrastructure bill," Less Government President Seton Motley told The Epoch Times.
Another big winner in the infrastructure bill's DOT spending is Amtrak, which in a typical year-prior to the pandemic caused by the CCP virus that's also known as the novel coronavirus-receives about $2 billion in federal subsidies.
Sen. Mike Lee offered an amendment to the infrastructure bill in the nature of a substitute that would, among other things, transfer $119 billion in unused federal money originally meant to help combat the coronavirus to the HTF. The Lee alternative included reducing the federal gas tax by 11 cents per gallon, simplifying and speeding up National Environmental Policy Act requirements on infrastructure projects, and abolishing federal Davis-Bacon wage regulations that require federal contractors to pay prevailing union wages on government projects.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Senate Infrastructure Bill Gives Feds Go-Ahead to Test Taxing Every Mile Americans Drive
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