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buttigieg-white-house-weighing-mileage-levy-to-fund-infrastructure-pork
Author: RaccoonMonkey134
Date: 03-26-2021 - 22:47
Commenter Wrote:
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> Reminds me of when I went to a conference in
> Karlsruhe. One lady had been driven in from the
> Frankfurt airport by a local representative of her
> company. She remarked, "I thought gas was supposed
> to be expensive here? I saw the prices at a gas
> station we passed." "Uh, you know that was in
> liters?"
>
> The United States federal excise tax on gasoline
> is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon
> for diesel fuel. The federal tax was last raised
> October 1, 1993 and is not indexed to inflation,
> which increased by a total of 83.74% from 1993
> until today. Or to put that another way, the gas
> tax today is only 54.4% of what it was in 1993.
> Now you know why the highway system is so highly
> subsidized. Over half the cost of building and
> maintenance comes from non user taxes. And people
> complain about Amtrak...
Flint can tax by the inch to replace your poison-pipes.
Maybe we could charge for each breath until you turn green in that deal.
The price at the pump never dipped below $2.49 a gallon during the covid bottom in southern california not so long ago. Now it is over $4 a gallon (and climbing) and covid ain't done yet.
So rainbow-rust wants me to pay a tax on fuel and on miles.
From my cold, dead hand.
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> Reminds me of when I went to a conference in
> Karlsruhe. One lady had been driven in from the
> Frankfurt airport by a local representative of her
> company. She remarked, "I thought gas was supposed
> to be expensive here? I saw the prices at a gas
> station we passed." "Uh, you know that was in
> liters?"
>
> The United States federal excise tax on gasoline
> is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon
> for diesel fuel. The federal tax was last raised
> October 1, 1993 and is not indexed to inflation,
> which increased by a total of 83.74% from 1993
> until today. Or to put that another way, the gas
> tax today is only 54.4% of what it was in 1993.
> Now you know why the highway system is so highly
> subsidized. Over half the cost of building and
> maintenance comes from non user taxes. And people
> complain about Amtrak...
Flint can tax by the inch to replace your poison-pipes.
Maybe we could charge for each breath until you turn green in that deal.
The price at the pump never dipped below $2.49 a gallon during the covid bottom in southern california not so long ago. Now it is over $4 a gallon (and climbing) and covid ain't done yet.
So rainbow-rust wants me to pay a tax on fuel and on miles.
From my cold, dead hand.
