By Bonchie
With the Biden administration’s unprecedented levels of spending just getting started, new ways to raise tax revenue to the government are beginning to be floated. We’ve already seen the proposition of raising some of the top marginal tax rates, increasing the corporate tax rate, and eliminating deductions as part of a broader “infrastructure” bill, which is really just a nearly $5 trillion slush fund of liberal wants.
In an attempt to further pay for their desired monstrosity, Biden’s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, has a tax idea that isn’t going to go over well. Namely, he thinks that a mileage tax, which would tax you for every mile you drive on a public road, shows a lot of “promise.”
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I can’t think of a broader, more regressive tax than a mileage tax. It’s the working class that does the lion’s share of driving on our roads, mainly because they don’t have jobs that allow them to work remotely. This would also kill truck drivers, which would mean the prices of consumer goods would skyrocket. Further, the bureaucratic processes that would need to be created in order to keep track of everyone’s mileage usage are mind-boggling to think about. In short, how exactly does this idea show any promise at all?
On the other hand, as I noted above, this would lead to a bloodbath in 2022. There is no way most Americans are going to be happy about getting a new tax bill that punishes them for attempting to be productive. And we all know that this will simplify be stacked on top of the existing gas tax. Democrats never simply the tax structure, they only stack more and more on top of it.
I hope the Democrats waste no time raising all the taxes they want to raise as quickly as possible. All the morons that voted for the idiot Biden thinking “the other guy” was going to pay for all the waste, pork and socialism gets it right up their liberal asses. It’s the only sure-fire cure for liberalism.
Curt, in the real world, “Biden administration’s unprecedented levels of spending” is incorrect as the Trump admin passed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act followed by a $484 billion package to replenished the PPP and then another $900 billion relief bill which he was actually demanding an additional $1400 socialism check for every American. And there was the huge tax scam that redistributed $1,5 to $2 trillion to the most wealthy while doing nothing to provide jobs or lift the economy while exploding the deficit to new levels.
What Biden has proposed is to reverse much of the Trump tax scam and restore the 39.6%, where it stood before the 2017 bill and to end the deduction available to pass-through entities such as partnerships and S corporations. He has also proposed no tax increases for anyone making under $400,000. It’s worth noting that after Trump, we have the most profitable companies in the world such as Amazon paying ZERO TAXES while leaching off of people like me to subsidize many of their full time workers with food stamps. Under Trump. we had billionaire profiting companies such as Walmart actually sitting up training seminars to teach their full time employees how to qualify for government assistance- how to steal my $ to offset their very own payroll while raking in huge profits.
I realize you either hate Democrats or perhaps it’s profitable for you to spin reality to promote your blog but having the wealthy at least pay their own damn way rather than confiscating my money isn’t exactly an un-American concept or, it certainly shouldn’t be.
And while we’re talking about presidential spending, if you recall, Trump promised infrastructure improvements his entire term and the glazed over basket of gullible were all for it. This, had he kept his promise, would have cost dearly, just as Biden’s now promise to deliver what Trump failed to deliver will. Aside from the reality that it was just another Trump lie/scam, the level of wide open and in-your-face hypocrisy is remarkable.
@Ronald J. Ward: What should the penalty be for lying on a federal firearm background check form?
@Deplorable Me:
I really don’t know nor do I give a flying shit.
Hopefully (well to be honest, I again really don’t give a flying shit), that suffices as an answer to your distracting demand to an irrelevant question.
@Ronald J. Ward:
Wow. An honest answer that totally encapsulates the left’s true feelings towards background checks and “common sense gun control”! And from AJ, no less!
In reality, the left doesn’t care about how their “regulations” work or if they are effective. They just want to inch closer and closer to full confiscation. Nor do sycophantic idiots like AJ care that an idiot like Biden preaches one thing while he covers up the crimes of his coke-sniffing, crack-smoking, whore-mongering son, endangering children. But, no big deal when the liberal ruling elite are violating the laws.
This is why fools like AJ vote for and support criminals like Hillary and Biden.
@Ronald J. Ward: Hey, asshole: Covid-19.
Your overlords had to rig an election even after lying to the public about Trump.
Trump saved millions with both his actions and the vaccine.
Dems rack up more debt that Republicans, every time.
And watch your tone, boy. You’re a silly little beta who needs to grow up, or at least suffer some real adversity in life since your values and your beliefs are that of a 15-year-old white girl living in a mansion.
Yeah, because they paid collectively BILLIONS to install Biden. Trump was holding these companies in check, and Biden is why we now have a corporate-government state.
Democrats: the party of racists and big corporations.
Glad you’re going to reap what you sow, idiot. At least with Trump you had a good economy.
Keep blindly pulling the lever for the Democrats, though. You deserve every ounce of misery for your idiocy.
@Nathan Blue:
Getting back to me correcting Curt’s lifted nonsense of “Biden administration’s unprecedented levels of spending” , what I presented was actual facts.
What you rebutted was a blathering hate spew of debunked conspiracy theories and nonsensical unhinged and radical seething from a nut case still all butthurt because your racist con man was rejected by the good people in this country.
@Nathan Blue: Doesn’t AJ seem a bit disoriented having to defend such a total failure of a phony fraud of a president*? Of course, he has practice defending the indefensible with his lies, but defending THIS idiot? I think it’s driving him nuts. A short trip.
@Nathan Blue:
Guess Ward/AJ missed the story of how Google made out like a fat cat in a good garbage can under the Obama regime. All it took was heafty donations to the Obama campaign.
Ward/AJ needs to stay up with the times; it is the Democrats who are now the party of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, not the party of the “common man.”
@Ronald J. Ward:
Whoa! I thought you said PINO Biden won. So now you are telling me that the racist con man, as exposed during the Clarence Thomas hearings, actually lost?
@retire05: AJ is up with the times. However, the truth is in direct contradiction with his ideology, so he feigns ignorance of the truth. He knows that his ignorance is easily believed.
That’s all what Democrats are tax and spends tax and spend tax and spend