Hidden on Page 508 of the Infrastructure Bill Is a Plan to Make It Too Expensive to Drive a Car

The Western Journal

The cost of living is on the rise, calls for yet another wave of pandemic restrictions have begun and now, buried deep in the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, the left has laid out yet another idea to bring Americans to their knees.

Make no mistake: The suffering is intentional, goal-oriented and not bound to stop anytime soon.

Still, one proposal in the 2,702 page infrastructure bill seems especially cruel โ€” cruel enough to make it too expensive for many Americans to even drive a car.

Nick Short of the Claremont Institute highlighted an item on Pages 508-519 of the bill that would introduce a national per-mile motor vehicle user fee on a trial basis.

โ€œBuried on page 508 of the 2,702 page infrastructure bill is a pilot program for a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee (MBUF) which is basically a long-term plan to make it too expensive to drive a car,โ€ Short said Tuesday on Twitter.

The pilot program is set up โ€œto test the design, acceptance, implementation, and financial sustainability of a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee, to address the need for additional revenue for surface transportation infrastructure and a national motor vehicle per-mile user feeโ€ and โ€œto provide recommendations relating to the adoption and implementation of a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee,โ€ the bill says.

An article from The Lid Blog attached to Shortโ€™s tweet detailed the proposal even further, breaking down each component, from the programโ€™s objectives to its proposal that โ€œvolunteersโ€ from each state should discover different ways to collect data on miles driven by โ€œboth commercial and private vehicle operators.โ€

On Page 513, the proposal says that the โ€œSecretary of the Treasury shall establish, on an annual basis, per-mile user fees for passenger motor vehicles, light trucks, and medium- and heavy-duty trucks.โ€

In theory, these per-mile user fees would vary by vehicle contingent upon several factors, including โ€” you guessed it โ€” environmental impact.

By Taylor Penley

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