Buttigieg open to taxing drivers by the mile

[Morphine Prince 109,657]

 

[Morphine Prince 109,657]

Democrats are gonna lose big in 2022 thanks to clips like this  

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Mayor Peter nailing that own goal by putting taxation on lower earners who can't afford to live close to work. Rural inhabitants need work too, Pete!

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In big cities it should be that way, but only after there are major public transit infrastructures in place. The tax could serve to directly finance those projects.

Let’s gooooo!!! 

[HuffsAhoy 7,433]

Yet again the city-elite Dems are failing to think of rural America with idiotic plans like this  There are so many of them who have to commute miles into the nearest city every day just to work at job that pays a livable wage. This kind of thinking is why the left will never be taken seriously in the USA; they keep alienating a good chunk of the country.

ETA: the public transportation infrastructure in most major cities is nowhere near capable of handling something like this. I mean there are literally only a handful of major metro areas that have a truly substantial public transport system that isn't busses  Start investing in public transport then we can start talking about taxing drivers by the mile. 

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2 minutes ago, HuffsAhoy said:

Yet again the city-elite Dems are failing to think of rural America with idiotic plans like this  There are so many of them who have to commute miles into the nearest city every day just to work at job that pays a livable wage. This kind of thinking is why the left will never be taken seriously in the USA; they keep alienating a good chunk of the country.

This. 

And not only rural areas would suffer. 

Service workers usually can’t afford to live in tourist areas filled with restaurants, etc. So they have to drive longer. 

Also, my city has a large medical center. We gonna punish healthcare workers who choose not to live close to their jobs? 

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Just now, Morphine Prince said:

This. 

And not only rural areas would suffer. 

Service workers usually can’t afford to live in tourist areas filled with restaurants, etc. So they have to drive longer. 

Also, my city has a large medical center. We gonna punish healthcare workers who choose not to live close to their jobs? 

When I first moved to the Orlando area and was working at Disney, I had to commute almost an hour because living nearby my job was cost prohibited. I think round trip each way was close to 75 miles 5 days a week. Then count in the tolls I had to pay because of work on the main interstate along with gas, I was putting all my paycheck toward just getting to work. I can't imagine having to factor in a mileage tax on top of that. 

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I stan Pete but this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard

There's tolls for this very reason

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I personally love the idea, if you use the road more you should contribute more. People this could replace the gas tax, meaning it stays similar in and out of pocket for the average consumer, but trucking companies (think Amazon) that basically tear up our roads for free would be much much much heavier taxed, because their big rigs require the road to be repaired more often.

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Actually, this is going to be a thing in certain European countries, in order to bring down the CO2 levels and to decrease congested traffic. But we already pay for infrastructure and such through our taxes... so yeah...

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1 minute ago, Chromatislaps said:

Actually, this is going to be a thing in certain European countries, in order to bring down the CO2 levels and to decrease congested traffic. But we already pay for infrastructure and such through our taxes... so yeah...

The US is a lot less urbanized than most of Europe and a lot larger too

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3 minutes ago, FATCAT said:

I personally love the idea

Of course you would  Just admit you hate the rural working class already. This would utterly KILL them. It sickens me there are people like you who get off on taxing the poor to death. 

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3 minutes ago, FATCAT said:

I personally love the idea, if you use the road more you should contribute more. People this could replace the gas tax, meaning it stays similar in and out of pocket for the average consumer, but trucking companies (think Amazon) that basically tear up our roads for free would be much much much heavier taxed, because their big rigs require the road to be repaired more often.

Using the road more isn’t always a choice. 

Two concepts: 

Red-lining

Gentrification 

 

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This would also alienate the suburbs as they need to drive into the city to work. 

Just when Democrats have been making gains in the suburbs

 

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17 minutes ago, HuffsAhoy said:

When I first moved to the Orlando area and was working at Disney, I had to commute almost an hour because living nearby my job was cost prohibited. I think round trip each way was close to 75 miles 5 days a week. Then count in the tolls I had to pay because of work on the main interstate along with gas, I was putting all my paycheck toward just getting to work. I can't imagine having to factor in a mileage tax on top of that. 

Love this post! I drive 80 miles per journey to get to work because that's where the work is– there's no equivalent local to me unless I take a huge pay cut. Am I supposed to sell my house, pull my kid out of daycare, get my partner to find a new job etc just so I can move to a major city and succumb to the will of capitalism? 

Public transport would double my journey time, and add huge extra $ to my expenses