Bill Collier- In a stunning blast against freedom of movement and privacy, and a further massive tax burden on working people and the poor, Seators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) are pushing for a motor vehicle per-mile user fee. Styled as a “toll” to avoid the word “tax”, this dramatic Federal overreach would cause an intense invasion of privacy allowing for tracking of tour mileage, which may include even tracking your whereabouts, and would potentially add a new layer of red tape to your life as tou calculate and pay these “fees.”
While the money raised would allegedly pay for “infrastructure”, the likelihood of this new slush fund being used solely for its intended purpose is almost zero. Finding new ways to milk the poor and workers, the producing classes in our society, to make life better for the ruling class, all while concealing this intention, seems to be the chief skill most politicians seek to become expert at.
This proposal, as part of the so-called “infrastructure bill”, a “bipartisan” money grab that actually does very little for infrastructure, makes the “user fees” part of a pilot program. What that means isn’t clear, evidently only a few victims in a few places will be initially chosen by Transportation Secretary Buttigieg and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. The end result is, if this is fully implemented, transforming all Federal highways into toll roads or all roads in general, it isn’t clear if these “user fees” will count all miles or only miles on Federal highways, toward your bill.
The fleecing of the producers in our society by uber rich politicos and corporate bigshots is running the normal course of a dying and moribund civilization which has lost its very soul to a craven “world-as-spoil” lust on the part of our depraved ruling class. This proposal represents a massive invasion of privacy and massive increases in the cost of living and will likely only be used to dole out contracts to favored entities who support the right politicians.
The poorest and minority communities will be hardest hit by such a program. Even efforts to waive the fees for the poor would introduce more red tape and dehumanizing complexity to their lives as they will have to “prove” how truly broke they are!
The fact this proposal has bipartisan support is not a surprise. The uniparty is ruled by and for the ruling class at the expense of the producing classes, the workers and makers.
