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Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car (insideevs.com)
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[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

As pissed as I get at fees, electric cars don't typically pay a gas tax, the taxes we levy on fuel pay for road maintenance so that fee should be for road repairs. In my very small car I pay around $1.80 or so each week in federal fuel tax (not sure what I pay to the state, but those combined is very likely over $130/yr).

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Electric cars pay electricity tax. Gas cars pay gasoline tax. We don’t need to tax electric cars even more.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Which portion of the electricity tax is used to repair the roads they use? Not trying to be too defensive but if we all switched and didn't pay more, the roads would be even worse than they already are.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Whatever % of the general budget goes toward roads. Money is fungible, this has the same answer as: What portion of sales tax pays for roads, what portion of income tax pays for roads, what portion of land tax pays for roads?

The important part here is that you do pay taxes when you charge your EV. We don't need to double tax EVs.

[–] Casterial@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

The gullible part is thinking the federal government fixes the roads with your money at all. More than likely it'll go to Israel.

I bet the pick ups will pay less than an EV driver and are one of the main causes of road damages

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

These particular feds are scheming on privatizing the interstates.