Winsome Earle-Sears is running for Governor of Virginia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Virginia_gubernatorial_election
She wants to get rid of the car tax:
https://xcancel.com/winwithwinsome/status/1943022815583600667
This is the dumbest tax plan EVER.
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Virginia residents who own a car get millions in cuts 💰
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Virginia residents who are car-free get nothing ❌
Who comes up with this non-sense🤦?
Only 3 states Delaware, Montana, and New Jersey raise enough revenue from cars to fully cover their highway spending. The remaining 47 states must make up the difference with tax revenues from other sources
By diverting general funds to roadway spending, the burden of paying for the roads falls on all taxpayers, including people who drive very little or may not drive at all.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-road-taxes-funding/
On the contrary, cars are way too subsidized! We should be taxing these vehicles to appropriately reflect their social cost.
Especially gas, by removing subsidies.
When people complain about how expensive gasoline is, I usually suggest it be over $20/gallon to actually fund road maintenance, and clean up its environmental damage. Nobody's agreed with me yet.
It's $8 a gallon in sweden and it's still subsidized
Unless there are some other drastic changes in funding, and a slow ramp up to this tax, you’d absolutely destroy the working class people working the lower wage jobs. Poorer people tend to not have any remote work, and would most likely be driving an older, less fuel efficient and non-electric car.
All of that is true.
So of course it would have to be phased in over at least a few years. That's the way these things are always done anyway.
I agree with you!
Thank you. I'd expect it here.
But in the real world I suddenly grow a second head on my shoulders.
In Europe we pay like $6-8 per gallon, some countries may be paying even more.
We just need to build trains everywhere. That will solve all of our problems in this category.
Also trucks... One reason car taxes have increased a lot in recent years where I live is trucking lobbies lobbying government to reduced road taxes on trucks and increase weight limits on trucks.