The unintended consequences (if it fact they are unintended) would see something akin to the great depression, but probably worse.
Which, of course, plays into why they want so much control and talks of a digital USD. Fuck me.
You think the dems care.The per-mile driving tax is stupid and a paperwork nightmare because, while cars do have an odometer, they aren't set up for this. Someone will have to manually check the miles driven on each vehicle in the US to determine the actual tax owed.
BTW: Based one avg fuel economy $0.08/mile works out to a $2.00/gal increase in gas taxes ... which is not getting through Congress with a single vote in favor because that puts gas prices in my neck of the woods at around $5.00/gal instead of $3.00/gal.
Not really. A lot of companies track the milage of their vehicle via the pump. Either an employee or the vehicle in question has an assigned fuel card. When they use the pump it can request the number on the odometer and it needs to be entered to continue before they can refuel. That info is transmitted to the company. They could require you to scan your driver's license to track your odometer and do the math.The per-mile driving tax is stupid and a paperwork nightmare because, while cars do have an odometer, they aren't set up for this. Someone will have to manually check the miles driven on each vehicle in the US to determine the actual tax owed.
BTW: Based one avg fuel economy $0.08/mile works out to a $2.00/gal increase in gas taxes ... which is not getting through Congress with a single vote in favor because that puts gas prices in my neck of the woods at around $5.00/gal instead of $3.00/gal.
That would fall down and go boom in an instant because a fair number of people own multiple cars and a lot of people with licenses don't own a vehicle.They could require you to scan your driver's license to track your odometer and do the math.
Ehh a little of column a, a little of column b i guess?Okay, I keep hearing about how Michell Obama is supposed to supposedly be trans or at least the one really running the show. Is there any truth/evidence at all to that or is this just mud-slinging?
Not really. A lot of companies track the milage of their vehicle via the pump. Either an employee or the vehicle in question has an assigned fuel card. When they use the pump it can request the number on the odometer and it needs to be entered to continue before they can refuel. That info is transmitted to the company. They could require you to scan your driver's license to track your odometer and do the math.
Communist Russia openly admitted it wanted our leadership dead and our system conquered and superseded by theirs. Communist China discovered lying about their intentions and bribing politicians works a lot better than honesty for preventing them from fighting back.I am just going to point out if Miley had done this 31 years ago. His ass would have been dragged out of the Pentagon in irons. They did not tolerate that shit back during the Cold War.
A commie SCOTUS would say "NOPE!" to such an expansion of the toll system faster than the conservative one we currently have. Roads are a public good and the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 says that a paved road can not be a toll road if it's the only public paved path connecting two parts of the US.Far more likely is an expansion of current digital toll systems, that run on cameras taking shots of your license plate as you pass through various places, so it would literally just pan out as a toll system, and a justification for putting cameras on literally every road.
Because things aren't nightmarishly dystopian enough yet.
On the one hand, if they think that gasoline usage is starting to decouple from road usage (going from regular cars to regular cars versus fuel-sipper hybrids versus plug-in hybrids and electric-only cars) then it makes sense that they'd be grasping for an alternative way to raise funds from drivers.They are actually trying for the 'driving tax' idea. As if we don't already have auto taxes anyway; now they are going to tax you on a per mile basis.
So now driving at all will cost not just gas money, which can be variable, but now a per mile fee to even get behind the wheel.
I'd actually be okay with this part, depending on its implementation (no small caveat). It's non-transferred unrealized gain taxation I have a big problem with.It also hit estate transfers and the like in ways the current laws don't, meaning that people may taxed for unrealized gains on small businesses they inherit or anything else passed on to them.
This helps destroy 'g[e]nerational wealth', which the far-Left hates because they think everyone should start and exist on a 'level playing field'. So if you work hard and save to have something to pass on to your kids and grandkids, kiss a lot of it goodbye due to this desire to tax 'unrealized gains', on top of the other taxes you deal with during estate transfers.
Someone's distressed.
Death Taxes are terrible, and I mean TERRIBLE.A tax that waits until I die, and only hits the part above like $12 million? If the government has to collect taxes at all (hint: yes), this is fine. The step up in basis is utterly senseless to me. Having said that, naturally I agree with some protections for passing down things like the small family business or farm intact.
Death taxes are unjust from the get go, and are mostly there to destroy generational wealth for anyone who isn't uberwealthy.What percentage of companies are even subject to the tax in the first place? Can you point me to data on that being a major reason for the corporatization of farms (out of the hands of families)?
On a basic level, would it be accurate to say you take the position that the "all-at-once" nature of the tax is a drawback that outweighs the benefit of delaying the collection of the tax for the person's entire life, or do you not even consider that a benefit? (I'm assuming that the overall tax revenue collected is the same with or without the tax, because that's the only sensible way to discuss it as opposed to other forms of taxation.)
Death taxes are unjust from the get go, and are mostly there to destroy generational wealth for anyone who isn't uberwealthy.
There are legal ways to avoid paying as much, such as trusts and such, but the fact that there is a death tax at all is unjust.
What percentage of companies are even subject to the tax in the first place? Can you point me to data on that being a major reason for the corporatization of farms (out of the hands of families)?
On a basic level, would it be accurate to say you take the position that the "all-at-once" nature of the tax is a drawback that outweighs the benefit of delaying the collection of the tax for the person's entire life, or do you not even consider that a benefit? (I'm assuming that the overall tax revenue collected is the same with or without the tax, because that's the only sensible way to discuss it as opposed to other forms of taxation.)