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mwooldri

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10. Gas tax is already regressive.

Reply to LauraInLA (Reply #6)

Thu Jun 12, 2025, 07:47 PM

Jun 12

Poorer people can't afford the super fuel efficient vehicles. So have to buy more fuel per mile travelled.

An after-the-fact mileage tax can at least mitigate some of this by giving tax breaks, something not as easily done with the gas tax.

If done smart it can be done right. But your point of regressive taxes is accurate.

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Trump blocks California rules for greener vehicles and gas-powered car ban [View all] groundloop Jun 12 OP

TSF has no right to order anything. And resolutions aren't laws. sinkingfeeling Jun 12 #1

The admin likes finding ways around laws and so can CA jgmiller Jun 12 #2

Good point. The idiot red state where I live charges extra fees for electric vehicles & plug-in hybrids. groundloop Jun 12 #3

Not totally idiotic idea though. mwooldri Jun 12 #5

I agree with the idea of the taxes paying for roads. The problem with a mileage tax, at least here in SoCal, LauraInLA Jun 12 #6

Gas tax is already regressive. mwooldri Jun 12 #10

Or a sales tax. mwooldri Jun 12 #4

I would just buy a barely used car and not pay the fee MichMan Jun 12 #11

I need to read up on this -- are the Feds arguing that this is an interstate commerce violation or something? How do they LauraInLA Jun 12 #7

He'll be long dead before this law comes in effect kimbutgar Jun 12 #8

Fuck his stupid orders and decrees! Initech Jun 12 #9

This is the California Republic. Time to toss out all the Nazi politicians. Magoo48 Jun 13 #14

Kristi Noem, Tom Homan and their ICE goons should be permanently banned from California. Initech Jun 13 #15

I'm all for that. Get everyone together; let's take a vote. Magoo48 Jun 13 #16

Every time I drive my EV, I feel like it's a middle finger to Orange Mussolini. Dem2theMax Jun 12 #12

So much for states' rights. mdbl Jun 13 #13