Arizona Republican Ken Bennett joined forces with Democrats to block legislation that would have barred Arizona’s state and local governments from enacting vehicle mileage tax programs that not only rip off motorists but allow tax collectors and government agencies to gather information on the movements of private citizens.
The concept of a vehicle mileage tax, also known as a pay-per-mile tax, among other nicknames, has been embraced on a national scale by the Biden Administration and is a key component of the Green New Deal agenda championed by the DNC. Under the tax scheme, citizens must pay their government for the apparent privilege of using the roads their taxes already paid for.
Advocates openly state that vehicle mileage taxes are designed to discourage the ownership and use of personal vehicles, in the name of the green agenda, especially gas vehicles.
Though no such tax is in effect (yet) in Arizona, a similar program was implemented in Oregon in 2015, and others are in various stages of development in Virginia, Utah, California, and Hawaii.
Amid calls for a vehicle mileage tax in Arizona, state Republicans, led by the Freedom Caucus, crafted legislation to ban the practice statewide, and it nearly passed, until GOP Senator Ken Bennett crossed the aisle to sabotage the effort.
Bennett’s Trump-endorsed GOP primary race opponent, Mark Finchem, who garnered national recognition for his efforts to get to the truth of Arizona’s contested and corrupted 2020 Election, shared a prior report on the vehicle mileage tax to his X profile, calling the vote “classic” Ken Bennett.
As alluded to by Mark Finchem, Ken Bennett’s voting record is deeply at odds with his own party and its supporters on a number of key issues that aren’t just limited to taxation or the green scheme.
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