Bloomberg: Vehicle Mile Tax Draws Fresh Attention as Buttigieg Takes Post

Large segments of the population are as skeptical of government as they’ve ever been, so asking them to install devices in their vehicles to determine how far and sometimes even where they’ve driven seems “tone deaf for this moment,” Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said.

“I don’t know that the idea is ready for prime time yet,” Davis said. “The vast majority of vehicles are still powered by gasoline, and that makes gas taxes a reasonable way to charge drivers for using the roads now.” Read more