• dudleyflippendoodle@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    I own an EV and already pay an extra road tax for having an EV to my state, on top of more for tires, more for insurance, more for repairs, and more for public fast charging thanks to the government’s failure to build up charging infrastructure at a decent pace. Why should I pay another tax to the federal government?

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      8 hours ago

      This is a whole different argument that I never really mentioned, but that is correct. This is a federal tax, meaning it would stack on top of any type of state tax.

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      19 hours ago

      The “if things weren’t insane right now” answer is that state taxes don’t directly go to support the federal highway system, that’s funded through things like gas tax as well. The current real answer is “fuck you and your tamed lightning car, liberal