The demons ruling us don't want us to drive either
Aug 4, 2021 19:48:26 #
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Wednesday, August 04, 2021
Hidden on Page 508 of the Infrastructure Bill Is a Plan to Make It Too Expensive to Drive a Car
Taylor Penley
August 4, 2021 at 3:07pm
The cost of living is on the rise, calls for yet another wave of pandemic restrictions have begun and now, buried deep in the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, the left has laid out yet another idea to bring Americans to their knees.
Make no mistake: The suffering is intentional, goal-oriented and not bound to stop anytime soon.
Still, one proposal in the 2,702 page infrastructure bill seems especially cruel — cruel enough to make it too expensive for many Americans to even drive a car.
Nick Short of the Claremont Institute highlighted an item on Pages 508-519 of the bill that would introduce a national per-mile motor vehicle user fee on a trial basis.
“Buried on page 508 of the 2,702 page infrastructure bill is a pilot program for a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee (MBUF) which is basically a long-term plan to make it too expensive to drive a car,” Short said Tuesday on Twitter.
The pilot program is set up “to test the design, acceptance, implementation, and financial sustainability of a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee, to address the need for additional revenue for surface transportation infrastructure and a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee” and “to provide recommendations relating to the adoption and implementation of a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee,” the bill says.
An article from The Lid Blog attached to Short’s tweet detailed the proposal even further, breaking down each component, from the program’s objectives to its proposal that “volunteers” from each state should discover different ways to collect data on miles driven by “both commercial and private vehicle operators.”
Do you support a per-mile motor vehicle user fee?
On Page 513, the proposal says that the “Secretary of the Treasury shall establish, on an annual basis, per-mile user fees for passenger motor vehicles, light trucks, and medium- and heavy-duty trucks.”
In theory, these per-mile user fees would vary by vehicle contingent upon several factors, including — you guessed it — environmental impact.
To ease any apprehension about participating in the pilot program, the measure indicates that participants’ identities will be protected, perhaps, as The Lid said, to prevent ostracization “if this happens and achieves the desired result.”
The left can chalk up this test run of what eventually might turn into a full-blown measure to make owning a vehicle next-to-impossible as an effort to be “environmentally conscious,” but is it instead another way to cripple our existing ways of life?
We might dismiss it now, but imagine telling yourself five years ago that the government would order small business closures, codify when and how Americans could worship and adopt an increasingly draconian “do as I say, not as I do” policy to address a global pandemic.
From the way we work to the way we breathe, so many aspects of our lives have already changed — albeit willingly, for some.
What’s so different about changing how we get to one place from another?
With $10 million dedicated to this program for each year from 2022 to 2026, it’s easy to see how the government doles out what it acquires from hardworking Americans.
Any Republican lawmakers who vote in favor of this “bipartisan” bill have no right to label themselves “conservative.”
This proposal is the antithesis of conservatism.
Wednesday, August 04, 2021
Hidden on Page 508 of the Infrastructure Bill Is a Plan to Make It Too Expensive to Drive a Car
Taylor Penley
August 4, 2021 at 3:07pm
The cost of living is on the rise, calls for yet another wave of pandemic restrictions have begun and now, buried deep in the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, the left has laid out yet another idea to bring Americans to their knees.
Make no mistake: The suffering is intentional, goal-oriented and not bound to stop anytime soon.
Still, one proposal in the 2,702 page infrastructure bill seems especially cruel — cruel enough to make it too expensive for many Americans to even drive a car.
Nick Short of the Claremont Institute highlighted an item on Pages 508-519 of the bill that would introduce a national per-mile motor vehicle user fee on a trial basis.
“Buried on page 508 of the 2,702 page infrastructure bill is a pilot program for a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee (MBUF) which is basically a long-term plan to make it too expensive to drive a car,” Short said Tuesday on Twitter.
The pilot program is set up “to test the design, acceptance, implementation, and financial sustainability of a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee, to address the need for additional revenue for surface transportation infrastructure and a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee” and “to provide recommendations relating to the adoption and implementation of a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee,” the bill says.
An article from The Lid Blog attached to Short’s tweet detailed the proposal even further, breaking down each component, from the program’s objectives to its proposal that “volunteers” from each state should discover different ways to collect data on miles driven by “both commercial and private vehicle operators.”
Do you support a per-mile motor vehicle user fee?
On Page 513, the proposal says that the “Secretary of the Treasury shall establish, on an annual basis, per-mile user fees for passenger motor vehicles, light trucks, and medium- and heavy-duty trucks.”
In theory, these per-mile user fees would vary by vehicle contingent upon several factors, including — you guessed it — environmental impact.
To ease any apprehension about participating in the pilot program, the measure indicates that participants’ identities will be protected, perhaps, as The Lid said, to prevent ostracization “if this happens and achieves the desired result.”
The left can chalk up this test run of what eventually might turn into a full-blown measure to make owning a vehicle next-to-impossible as an effort to be “environmentally conscious,” but is it instead another way to cripple our existing ways of life?
We might dismiss it now, but imagine telling yourself five years ago that the government would order small business closures, codify when and how Americans could worship and adopt an increasingly draconian “do as I say, not as I do” policy to address a global pandemic.
From the way we work to the way we breathe, so many aspects of our lives have already changed — albeit willingly, for some.
What’s so different about changing how we get to one place from another?
With $10 million dedicated to this program for each year from 2022 to 2026, it’s easy to see how the government doles out what it acquires from hardworking Americans.
Any Republican lawmakers who vote in favor of this “bipartisan” bill have no right to label themselves “conservative.”
This proposal is the antithesis of conservatism.
Aug 4, 2021 19:55:47 #
Redangel62 wrote:
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There is no bigger crock of caca that I know of, and this one stinketh very much bad. Bipartisan my achin butt, this is all demonrat, all the time and don’t forget the RINOs who sign on to this garbage.
Aug 4, 2021 19:59:59 #
Redangel62 wrote:
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And with all of this and more, these Liberals Love 💘 their Biden... Not even here at OPP,
DO any of them find any fault with their leader¿?
Aug 4, 2021 20:34:54 #
Weasel wrote:
And with all of this and more, these Liberals Love 💘 their Biden... Not even here at OPP,
DO any of them find any fault with their leader¿?
DO any of them find any fault with their leader¿?
They don't love Biden, they just HATE Trump!
Aug 5, 2021 07:56:48 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
Redangel62 wrote:
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What a load of crap.
Aug 5, 2021 09:05:21 #
lpnmajor wrote:
What a load of crap.
Why do you say that? Are you saying the bill is a load of crap? If so, I agree. If you are saying pointing out one of the problems in the bill is a load of crap, please explain why that is so.
Aug 5, 2021 13:28:54 #
Aug 5, 2021 17:35:17 #
Weasel wrote:
And with all of this and more, these Liberals Love 💘 their Biden... Not even here at OPP,
DO any of them find any fault with their leader¿?
DO any of them find any fault with their leader¿?
You are once again confusing emotions and feelings that trump supporters have for their deposed leader with feelings that dems do not have toward a president even when they elected and support him. Most dems can criticize Biden, and they do for all kinds of things, you all on the other hand see any criticism no matter what as a sign of being a traitor, of not loving the leader and country.
Criticizing your president has nothing to do with love or hate, these are right wing feelings and beliefs. I elect a president, and the president of the united states is my president whether I voted for or support him or not. When a president does something I approve or disapprove of I will say so without jeopardizing my love of country.
Aug 5, 2021 17:40:04 #
Redangel62 wrote:
They don't love Biden, they just HATE Trump!
Same way I hate Hitler and Putin, I respect Putin because he is quite frankly brilliant, and despise trump because he is an emotion driven moron that responds without thinking or caring about cause and effect...example Covid and "deciding" the economy would be better off if he lied about it and hoped it just went away...that was obviously as stupid as it gets.
Aug 5, 2021 17:46:29 #
woodguru wrote:
Same way I hate Hitler and Putin, I respect Putin because he is quite frankly brilliant, and despise trump because he is an emotion driven moron that responds without thinking or caring about cause and effect...example Covid and "deciding" the economy would be better off if he lied about it and hoped it just went away...that was obviously as stupid as it gets.
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