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They may not drive their enormous mining trucks on public roads, but they benefit from the society (including other public roads) that our taxes support. Plus i
by jdub 7y ago
They may not drive their enormous mining trucks on public roads, but they benefit from the society (including other public roads) that our taxes support. Plus it's absurd that we're incentivising the use of fossil fuels at all, let alone to dig up fossil fuels.
- pdpi 7y agoIf the stated goal of a rule is X, it's entirely reasonable to request an exemption based on how you act relative to X. As a matter of principle, I object to denying said exemption because the request comes from the requester's position on Y. In this particular case, if the tax is indeed levied on the basis of how it impacts road use and repairs, it's perfectly fair to exempt fuel meant to be used only in private property, irrespectively of how I feel about its polluting nature. I do agree it's absurd that we don't disincentivize the use of fossil fuels, and the mining of said fuels in general, but two wrongs don't make a right.
- kortilla 7y agoBy that measure everyone benefits from public roads and should pay fuel tax even if they aren’t driving on them. That makes no sense. You know farmers are exempt from diesel tax for farm equipment too, right?
- jdironman 7y agoHow do they get their vehicles and equipment to the non public sections of roads?
- richardw 7y agoTransported by trucks that do pay road taxes
- fragmede 7y agoKeep mind these are trucks with tires that are more than twice as tall as you or I. They were shipped there, oversized, by semi and assembled on-site. The semi that moved it paid its fuel/road/use tax, so taxing the truck being shipped as well amounts to double taxation. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that in this case. In California, any vehicle that travels on, or over (as in, shipped on a truck) must legally be registered with the DMV, regardless of if it will be run on public roads, or not. California's car culture has resulted in large race tracks on private land which may be the only place some motorcycles and other racing vehicles will be used. Still have to pay the car tax on it though.
- benj111 7y agoWhat if cars are imported to a California port, for sale in other states? Do they all need to be registered as soon as they arrive?