San Diego Prepares to Tax Residents by Miles Driven

[Anti Federalist]

San Diego Prepares to Tax Residents by Miles Driven

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...-miles-driven/

JOHN NOLTE 27 Jan 2023

Left-wing fascists in San Diego are preparing to tax residents by the mile to convince them to give up their cars.

Keep voting Democrat, geniuses.

Via Fox News:

San Diego County’s Regional Transportation Agency’s (SANDAG) latest transportation plan is designed to make driving so expensive that you succumb to public transportation. In addition to the current gas tax and registration fees, SANDAG’s plan adds three new half-cent sales tax increases, over 800 miles of San Diego County freeway lanes converted to toll lanes, and a mileage tax for every mile driven to pay for their $165 billion public mass transit plan.

SANDAG’s new plan refuses to build the road improvements promised in their last plan but will continue to tax us until 2048 to pay for them.

SANDAG’s finance plan states, “Charging fees for the transportation infrastructure that people use—for example, charging users for each mile they drive on the highway—can change travel behavior.”

Gee, if that includes electric cars, I’ll never stop laughing.

Of course, like most left-wing sin taxes — alcohol, cigarettes, gasoline — this is a tax on the poor.

Poor or rich, we all drive to work, so a larger percentage of the poor’s income will go to pay for another California Mass Transit Boondoggle.

Unless you live a few blocks from a mass transit stop, mass transit sucks. And depending on the crime rate, mass transit can suck anyway.

New York City probably has the best mass transit system in the country. Within the city and its immediate outskirts, pretty much anywhere you live or want to go, there’s a stop within reasonable walking distance. That was a pretty sweet deal—you know until people started pooping on the subways and pushing women off the subway platforms.

In most cities, mass transit sucks regardless because either you live too far away from a stop or where you’re going isn’t near a stop.

It can also suck if you have a lot of packages, a heavy package, or standing out in the rain or the cold, especially in a high crime area… especially at night.

Democrats don’t care about any of that. Their vision is herding us all into their failed cities where we will live in 400 square feet apartments in giant (ugly) high-rises where we eat bugs without air conditioning and watch transsexual propaganda on Netflix and CNN.

And they are dead serious. Take away our guns, our cars, our free speech, our artistic expression, corrupt our kids with drag queens, kill the suburbs, outlaw the church, gas stoves, and meat.

Like I said… Keep voting Democrat, geniuses.

[dannno]

San Diego is usually pretty conservative compared to LA and the bay area. There are a lot of military bases, plus it has much better schools so it tends to attract more conservative folks similar to how Orange County does, or did.. Orange County was red, but flipped in 2018, I think mostly due to mail in ballots and voter fraud.

Most of the county is not public transportation friendly, at all.. Way too spread out and suburban.

That said, I'm all for the toll roads, but they should be reducing the tax on fuel.. not adding to it.

I'm curious how they are planning to collect the per mile tax. From residents or also non-residents? How do they know how many miles you have driven, especially if you are a non-resident?

[nobody's_hero]

Seems I can't move California any lower on the list of places I'll never visit.

[Anti Globalist]

Next they'll tax residents on the miles they didn't drive.

[Anti Federalist]

San Diego is usually pretty conservative compared to LA and the bay area. There are a lot of military bases, plus it has much better schools so it tends to attract more conservative folks similar to how Orange County does, or did.. Orange County was red, but flipped in 2018, I think mostly due to mail in ballots and voter fraud.

Most of the county is not public transportation friendly, at all.. Way too spread out and suburban.

That said, I'm all for the toll roads, but they should be reducing the tax on fuel.. not adding to it.

I'm curious how they are planning to collect the per mile tax. From residents or also non-residents? How do they know how many miles you have driven, especially if you are a non-resident?

Details are sketchy but from what I have found is that the tax will start at 6 cents a mile, which works out to $900 a year fro average use of a car at 15,000 miles every year.

See here: https://www.sandiegonewsdesk.com/202...n-all-drivers/

Now, it seems you're in favor of this, and it could be done in very unobtrusive way, by simply submitting an odometer statement once a year.

Rest assured that will not be how it is implemented.

You will be required to carry an onboard gps tracker that will link in real time to government servers and it will monitor and log every inch driven.

Bonus: this will also rat you and automatically send citations for any driving infractions, especially speeding.

It will also allow the taxing authority to apply, in real time, toll increases for congestion, construction or any number of other reasons to reduce traffic by making unaffordable to drive.

EVs are all part of this because they are technologically more capable of remote control and stoppage and they are, overall, less efficient than ICE vehicles.

So when they fail to reduce CO2 or unicorn farts or whatever the Marxists are using at that time to take people's freedom of mobility away, there will be no alternative left, other than walking or maybe your Chairman Mao bicycle.

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

They should add that tax in addition to any gasoline taxes as extra punishment for those that use evil fuel.

[Anti Federalist]

They should add that tax in addition to any gasoline taxes as extra punishment for those that use evil fuel.

That's the plan.