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By Brad Polumbo
Here’s a dismaying prospect: Paying 6, 8, or 10 cents in new taxes for every mile you drive. It may sound small, but at an 8 cent rate, that would be $1,144 in new annual taxes for the average American, who drives about 14,300 miles a year. Yikes!
Some on social media are claiming that this punitive tax scheme has been slipped into President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending legislation—which, after all, is nearly 3,000 pages and is chock full of unrelated waste and partisan pet projects . But are they right to be concerned about a mileage tax soon becoming reality? Biden’s new bill calls for a “Mileage Tax,” taxing drivers at 10 cents a mile for the privilege of driving. Do you support this? — What’s Up Westside (@OneYearWorld) September 29, 2021 Here’s your working class (making under $400k) taxes, in case you actually believe POTUS isn’t going to tax you pic.twitter.com/ZwCT9TRSdN — Witchy Chick (@1WitchyChick) September 28, 2021 — Sal the Agorist (@SallyMayweather) September 28, 2021 No. At least, not yet.
The infrastructure legislation does not include a mileage tax or another form of driving tax. What it does include is a pilot program to study and test the idea. The legislation authorizes $125 million in taxpayer funding for this test initiative. (A lot of taxpayer money for an experiment, no?)
“People would volunteer to be part of the test,” fact-checkers at local New York news outlet WGRZ-TV report .
“The test would require volunteers to record their miles, pay the fees, and then be reimbursed by the government. This pilot program would go through the year 2026 and at that point, if Congress and the president like it, they would have to pass another bill making it into law. This infrastructure bill simply creates the program.” Some people are claiming Biden’s infrastructure bill contains a per-mile driving tax. That’s not quite right. It includes a pilot test program that will test out and study the idea, which could then be implemented in future legislation. https://t.co/IhtA6CJgEd — Brad Polumbo (@brad_polumbo) September 29, 2021 We can certainly […]
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