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IPFS News Link • Transportation
The Gas Tax plus the Mileage Tax
• Eric Peters AutosOf course, the bait-and-switch is the belief that gas taxes will "wither away" – like the state, in Communist theology.
You have to have faith to believe this – in both cases.
What will happen is that drivers will pay taxes for driving as well as for gas – assuming they don't drive a battery-powered device. Device owners will just pay twice as much for the device – and wait five times as long before they can drive the device.
The state having as much interest in eliminating a tax as a tapeworm has in being eliminated from its host.