How is that different from now? Rural people drive further causing them to use more gasoline, so they pay more taxes. A mileage tax does the same thing as a gasoline tax- they pay more tax because they drive further.
My experience is the opposite. When I lived in the sticks I drove about half what I do now living in the burbs of Charlotte.
Please consider replying to @Morgan3820 as I didn't make the statement. I merely questioned how the conclusion followed.
As I said, it's a state tax issue so 50 different answers. I live in Tennessee. We're 27.4¢ per gallon. Here, $75-$150 is in the ballpark for most drivers.
Yup yup indeed
Agreed Assuming that they remove the gas tax, which I don’t think would happen.
Okay but if the alternative is raising the gas tax, implementing a mileage tax + keeping gas taxes constant still impacts rural people less than the alternative.
What did I do?
I was just sharing my experience between rural and urban driving patterns. Don’t see how it matters which one of you I quoted. You were both talking about it in the thread.
If all rural residents were farmers then your logic would not be flawed.
Nothing at all. Just a little fun.
Also keeps the people at Intuit, H&R Block etc. employed. They lobby heavily to keep tax codes arcane and complicated to justify their software to the average tax payer.
I would pay less with a tax based on mileage. I don't think it's worth the extra cost and complexity. At least, not for passenger cars.
Well. I guess we won’t be able to have this conversation. Don’t see how it will avoid the ROC verboten subject’s.
I wasn't supporting nor detracting the premise. I was only asking how the conclusion followed from the premise. As I didn't make the premise, I can't properly reply to the comment you made. I don't know whether all rural residents drive further than urban or suburban drivers.
They don't, but I do!
Miami has an elevated automatic people-mover system in downtown. Initially, there was a fare to ride and you can still see some of the infrastructure at the stops which controlled access. They figured out that collecting fares cost more than they were collecting so now it is free to ride. A rare instance of good management by government. Of course, it was a local government, not Federal, which helps.
The Federal government has already been looking at GPS tracking as a means of taxing. It has been proposed several times. Of course I'm sure that's the only reason the government would want to track your vehicles every movement.
Don't forget, the government doesn't really care about the efficiency of a program. I believe it was the city of Detroit that figured out several years ago it's parking enforcement division, despite generating millions in annual revenue, actually was costing the city money to operate.