The Presidency of the Joes: more like INFRASTRUCTURE WEAK

[microbet]

Bezos can pay when we stop subsidizing freight imo.

[clovis8]

lol shitlib talking about transportation policy when there are billionaires in the world.

[microbet]

Won’t bother me if people call me shitlib or shitprog here. I’m kind of livid about some of the posting here around immigration and homelessness, but I can take this transportation stuff pretty coolly.

[clovis8]

Sorry not allowed to talk about kids in cages cause billionaires.

[eyebooger]

I think talking about transportation policy is good. I’m just a little sick of hearing “how will we pay for it” type shit.

[Will1530]

Just take a break man.

[CS04]

I think it’s time to mandate that everyone who drives a car by themselves has to switch to a motorcycle

[clovis8]

Everyone else can do everything possible to destroy real debate then I am going to play along.

[Trolly]

I dunno, I feel like you’re letting yourself get bent out of shape here.

[6ix]

@clovis8

Nobody has any interest in a nuanced discussion of policy sky. You are wasting your time. There is only interest in slogans and shouting bumper sticker policy.

Other than Johnny.

So my ‘no-child policy’ is falling on deaf ears huh?

[microbet]

Why add the regressive component at all?

Having to document mileage is a new thing…that sucks…and costs money.

National vehicle registration tax? Where people pay in proportion to the cost of their car? That’s a lot more reasonable and easier to implement.

But again, why the VMT on passenger cars? (Because it’s a subsidy of business…imo)

And when Trucks go electric you up their mileage fee and sales tax on trucks and the other freight taxes.

[NotBruceZ]

@skydiver8

Think of the number of delivery trucks on the road today vs. 1993, which is the last time anything having to do with this fund was passed.

How about a 1% national internet sales tax on top of what states charge, earmarked for roads and other infrastructure? Figure out what you want to exempt so that the tax doesn’t feel regressive.

[6ix]

Does Jeff Bezos own a car? If so, tax him a billion dollars. I call it the “tax Jeff Bezos a billion dollars for each car he owns… tax”. It is transportation related.

[Riverman]

How about “obvious child molester” tax. Leon Black, that will be $5 billion.

[6ix]

I’m sensing a lot of cabinet positions in this forum’s future.

[6ix]

@CS04

I think it’s time to mandate that everyone who drives a car by themselves has to switch to a motorcycle

[6ix]

@PocketChads

if we were having a discussion about a candy tax

you shut your filthy mouth

[microbet]

The revenue from freight by truck in the US is $791B/year. The Highway Trust Fund is $43B/year. Let them pay for the highways, they are the ones breaking them. Let Jane Q. Public get the free ride. She isn’t doing any harm.

[6ix]

Honestly they should just give a 181 billion dollar stimulus check to everybody. How’s that runneth over cup now Jeffrey?

[microbet]

And, if we like having roads, like we like having schools and parks and health care, they don’t need to be funded by the users. We allow capitalists to horde. We allow corporations to be people. We allow people to evade their responsibility/liability when then invest in corporations. We literally hold that people are not liable for the shit that results from the companies they own. This makes a lot of people rich. The people are getting rich because we make these rules for them. The whole idea of corporations is shielding owners from responsibility. We’re absolute suckers if we don’t get roads and schools and health care and parks and whatever we can out of the deal.