A New Driving Tax?

In 1978, we were also under the oppression of an incompetent president—Jimmy Carter. There

were gas shortages and blocks-long lines at gas stations, high inflation, high gas prices, and sky-high mortgage rates. Sound familiar? In the winter of that year, Gov. Rhodes of Ohio (a Republican!) issued a call to all the citizens to lower their home temperature to 68 degrees and save gas and electric. After a few months, the utility companies began complaining that they weren’t getting enough money in, so they raised the rates! The tax-paying citizen always gets squeezed. 

‍      Right now there is a move across America to charge drivers with a “miles-driven” tax instead of a gas tax. You see, too many people are moving to electric and hybrid cars, saving gas (as we are told to do) and now the state governments are complaining that they are losing gas tax money. So, to remedy that (Lord knows the state governments don’t get enough of our money) they want to tax us on how many miles we drive. There are 2 ways of doing this: 1. Put a device on our car that reports how much we drive. 2. Require a car inspection every year, which would include reporting how many miles we have driven that car. Then they will know how much to tax us. 

‍      We must forewarn our state reps and senators—We will not have this in the state of Missouri. We want reps and senators who will stand up for the little people, the tax payers, instead of always doing the bidding of businesses, corporate interests, lobbyists, activists, or state bureaucrats. We’d like to hear our reps and senators ask for once, “How will this affect the people?” Normally, lobbyists flood the capitol and whine about how they are being hurt by some policy. But no one stands there for the people—except that our reps and senators are supposed to do that for us! 

‍      Did you know Missouri has been raising our gas tax since 2020 by 12.5 cents over 5 years, bringing it to 29.5 cents a gallon by July 2025? Did they ask us if we approved? Did your rep or senator ask you how they should vote on this?

‍      Oh, by the way, did you know you might qualify for a gas tax rebate. Of course, it’s a contorted process (why do our legislators love doing that?—it’s because few people will do it, while our reps can say they did something for us. Kind of like school choice in MO.) But here it is if you’re interested.       

‍      Most drivers, of course, are unaware of this little perk. The state paid out $400,000 (at $30 each claim) and got in $82 million from the gas tax increase. Would you go through all this work to get $30 back? I doubt it. 

‍      Let’s watch and see if our state legislators will stand up for the people against new taxes like this. They surely didn’t protect us from the wolves in the Jackson County Legislature raising our property taxes. And they didn’t protect our state constitution from being easily changed by dark money and out-of-state influence. Don’t assume that if an “R” is beside their name, that they will stand up for the people. 

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