Winsome Earle-Sears is running for Governor of Virginia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Virginia_gubernatorial_election
She wants to get rid of the car tax:
https://xcancel.com/winwithwinsome/status/1943022815583600667
This is the dumbest tax plan EVER.
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Virginia residents who own a car get millions in cuts 💰
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Virginia residents who are car-free get nothing ❌
Who comes up with this non-sense🤦?
Only 3 states Delaware, Montana, and New Jersey raise enough revenue from cars to fully cover their highway spending. The remaining 47 states must make up the difference with tax revenues from other sources
By diverting general funds to roadway spending, the burden of paying for the roads falls on all taxpayers, including people who drive very little or may not drive at all.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-road-taxes-funding/
Anytime I hear “ax the tax” I know it’s removing a tax that benefits society and replacing it with a detriment to society. Without fail
You buy a computer, pay for it, and then you still need to pay for power and internet?
Personally as someone who drives, I prefer roads that I don’t need a lifted 4x4 to traverse. I’d say these people must think the asphalt just grows there naturally, but really they don’t actually think at all.
Just one less tax bro🙏
I promise bro just one less tax and it’ll fix everything 🥺
You got married but you have to be nice to your wife to get a blowjob? If I’m elected governor, everyone’s wives will have to give them a blowjob whenever they want, no questions asked.
You Winsome, you Losesome.
Some countries don’t have a car tax. However their roads are mostly unpaved dirt paths without signs, bridges or road maintenance, and you can’t go faster than 40kmh without ruining your car.
Sounds like good resolution to US car-centric infrastruture :D
Ah yes. The magical self maintaining roads.
On the contrary, cars are way too subsidized! We should be taxing these vehicles to appropriately reflect their social cost.
Especially gas, by removing subsidies.
When people complain about how expensive gasoline is, I usually suggest it be over $20/gallon to actually fund road maintenance, and clean up its environmental damage. Nobody’s agreed with me yet.
It’s $8 a gallon in sweden and it’s still subsidized
Unless there are some other drastic changes in funding, and a slow ramp up to this tax, you’d absolutely destroy the working class people working the lower wage jobs. Poorer people tend to not have any remote work, and would most likely be driving an older, less fuel efficient and non-electric car.
All of that is true.
So of course it would have to be phased in over at least a few years. That’s the way these things are always done anyway.
I agree with you!
Thank you. I’d expect it here.
But in the real world I suddenly grow a second head on my shoulders.In Europe we pay like $6-8 per gallon, some countries may be paying even more.
We just need to build trains everywhere. That will solve all of our problems in this category.
Also trucks… One reason car taxes have increased a lot in recent years where I live is trucking lobbies lobbying government to reduced road taxes on trucks and increase weight limits on trucks.
She’s also a Republican in all the worst kind of ways. Looking at her Wikipedia page just… Yikes.
When you get into main cities, public transportation and walking becomes easier and it makes sense to tax drivers more.
I’ve been working in the backwoods/suburbs for over 15 years now and in the US, you’re fucked. There is no way to get/keep a job without a car because there are no bike lanes, no sidewalks, and good luck trying to find a taxi/Uber. Your forced to take on the emissions testing, loans for junk cars because we can’t afford new cars. A 15 minute drive is 2 hours on foot because there are no sidewalks, you have to cut through yards, which is “trespassing” and you could get shot, especially in the backwoods areas.
They basically make it illegal to NOT have a car. And that’s a win for them because then they can tax the fuck out of you for owning one
It’s extra shitty because even with how expensive they are to own, cars (and the infrastructure for them) are STILL heavily subsidized.
It’s just a nonsense, inefficient system all around…
You don’t have to pay taxes on your car if you don’t drive it on public roads.
I grew up in Virginia. When I was in the 3rd grade, Jim Gilmore won on a “no car tax” campaign in 1998. Funny how we still have car tax hmm…
I agree it’s pretty stupid to pay a tax just for owning something. Let’s change it so they pay it every time they use it. Much more fair.
You mean a tax on gas?
More like a tax on weight over roads
Just make sure that it scales with weight correctly as well!
I’ve actually learned of a way to cheat and not pay car tax at all. Sell it.
