Get ready for Road Usage Fee Pilot Program or H.R. 3638. This bill, filed by Oregon extremist progressive liberal Democrat Earl Blumenauer will double the gas tax, resulting in taxing you every mile you drive in America.
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| Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer files bill to tax Americans every mile driven |
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The Hill (via Weasel Zippers):
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) on Tuesday reintroduced legislation that would require the government to study the most practical ways of taxing drivers based on how far they drive, in order to help fund federal highway programs.
Blumenauer’s bill, H.R. 3638, would set up a Road Usage Fee Pilot Program, which he said would study mileage-based fee systems. He cast his bill as a long-term solution for funding highway programs, and proposed it along with a shorter-term plan to nearly double the gas tax, from 18.4 cents to 33.4 cents per gallon.
“As we extend the gas tax, we must also think about how to replace it with something more sustainable,” Blumenauer said Tuesday. “The best candidate would be the vehicle mile traveled fee being explored by pilot projects in Oregon and implemented there on a voluntary basis next year.”