There’s another push in Springfield to tax motorists by the mile. Illinoisans already pay the second-highest gas taxes in the nation behind only California.
With electric cars and cars being more fuel efficient, Illinois is not seeing as much revenue per vehicle, so state lawmakers are considering a vehicle miles traveled tax to raise more money from motorists. State Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, proposed legislation exploring a “road usage charge” to tax drivers by the mile.
Since Gov. J.B. Pritzker doubled the gas tax in 2019 and built in automatic annual increases so lawmakers would no longer vote on the unpopular taxes, the amount drivers pay in gas taxes has reached roughly $2 billion. Illinois drivers pay the second-highest gas taxes in the nation, behind only California.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-again-considers-taxing-drivers-per-mile/
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Tax by the mile is being pushed in the state of Washington as well. Who will it primarily hurt? All the farmers, rural people who have to travel miles to get services, and basically the primarily Republicans. Dems living in Seattle and surrounds won’t be affected much.
