California plans road milage tax
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In Europe, many countries are already planning to tax people per mile driven.
Now California is joining them.
The shitty part is that petrol/gas tax is supposed to pay for the building and maintaining the roads, but now they want to tax us per mile as well.
The claim is, that since we are going electric there are not enough road taxes to pay for the roads. This is despite the promise that if you go electric, you get to drive tax free.
Part of this is also directly related to the WEF's Build Back Better and the 15-minute cities.
The UK is already starting to do this, where they block off roads so you are prevented from leaving your area by car.
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@raphjd I don't know exact number but CA already levies well over $1/gallon of tax, under various names meant to disguise it. So, Dems want to add to total?
One source puts it like this:
California residents currently pay $1.35 in taxes per gallon of gas. These new rates are proposed to go into effect July 1 this year through June 30, 2025.The current breakdown of cents per gallon of gas, is 43 percent towards state excise tax; 13 percent towards federal excise tax (.18 cents per gallon); 26 percent towards cap-and-trade (.35 cents per gallon); 1 percent towards state underground storage tax (.02 cents); and 8 percent towards low carbon fuel standards as well as state and local sales tax (.11 cents per gallon).
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Europe has extremely high petrol/gas tax.
Gordon Brown (Tony Blair's tax man) put in an "escalator" which increases petrol and diesel taxes 2p per liter each year.
It was put on hold due to covid but it's coming back 1 Oct this year.
