Suzanimal
01-29-2015, 12:47 PM
At the federal and state level, lawmakers are often engineers who attempt to mold society through tax policy – discouraging disreputable habits with heavy levies.
Cigarettes and alcohol are often favorite targets. And now, argues Todd Rehm of GaPundit.com, so are Atlanta-centric bohemians. Here’s his description of a piece of the House transportation package announced Wednesday:
* A hipster fee on fully-electric vehicles of $200/year for personal vehicles and $300/year for commercial vehicles – it’s hard to imagine a fee more narrowly tailored to primarily hit liberals – proceeds dedicated to transit.
Two points: Because the gas tax is the current means of funding, electric vehicles pay no taxes for the roads they use — a growing concern among transportation experts. Secondly, we know many Republicans who are into EVs, including a certain lieutenant governor.
One of the AJC’s number-crunchers, Isaac Sabetai, has quantified the $200 hipster fee in gasoline-burning terms.
Assuming 29.2 cent per gallon tax, you’d have buy nearly 685 gallons of fuel per year to pay $200 annually in the excise tax. That would put EV owners on a tax-paying par with those who buy an average 13.2 gallons of fuel per week. Which is about a tankful on most midsize cars.
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http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/01/29/the-hipster-tax-in-the-house-transportation-package/?ecmp=ajc_social_facebook_2014_politics_sfp
Cigarettes and alcohol are often favorite targets. And now, argues Todd Rehm of GaPundit.com, so are Atlanta-centric bohemians. Here’s his description of a piece of the House transportation package announced Wednesday:
* A hipster fee on fully-electric vehicles of $200/year for personal vehicles and $300/year for commercial vehicles – it’s hard to imagine a fee more narrowly tailored to primarily hit liberals – proceeds dedicated to transit.
Two points: Because the gas tax is the current means of funding, electric vehicles pay no taxes for the roads they use — a growing concern among transportation experts. Secondly, we know many Republicans who are into EVs, including a certain lieutenant governor.
One of the AJC’s number-crunchers, Isaac Sabetai, has quantified the $200 hipster fee in gasoline-burning terms.
Assuming 29.2 cent per gallon tax, you’d have buy nearly 685 gallons of fuel per year to pay $200 annually in the excise tax. That would put EV owners on a tax-paying par with those who buy an average 13.2 gallons of fuel per week. Which is about a tankful on most midsize cars.
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http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/01/29/the-hipster-tax-in-the-house-transportation-package/?ecmp=ajc_social_facebook_2014_politics_sfp