Government wants to tax drivers by the mile. This bill from Darrell Issa could stop it
Fox News
A new bill from Rep. Darrell Issa would prevent the federal and state government from pursuing plans to tax drivers by the mile, an idea officials have been looking at for a decade.
Issa’s bill is a reaction to the San Diego County regional tansportation agency’s plan to tax drivers for every mile driven in order to raise billions in revenue to expand mass transit in that city. Issa says that sort of planning is an overreaching attempt by the government to force people out of their cars and into public transportation, and he notes that the San Diego agency has explicitly acknowledged the goal of trying to "change behavior." Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.
But Issa is also sounding the alarm that the technology needed to implement a "vehicle miles traveled" tax, or VMT tax, would also give government officials the power to track people’s movement.