Donnie is getting desperate.
Desperate Donnie has a nice ring to it.
Per search, red-dye diesel is untaxed.
So he just approved a tax break? Wow, feels weird.
In the most roundabout way possible. Just remove the tax on undyed diesel, then.
Also stated at least three times in the article you didn’t read – as early as the second paragraph of the main prose.
There is no text in the article, it’s just a headline. I can take a screen shot to prove it, but you’re just a nobody.
I’m not sure if you’re using a broken app or something but there is definitely text there. Here are the first three paragraphs.
President Donald Trump has allowec the use of cheaper red-dyed diesel. typically reserved for farm operations, to be used more broadly in an attempt to bring down record-high fuel costs
Trump signed an executive order Monday evening stateside to temporarily allow truckers and farmers to use red-dved diesel - which is exempt from highway fuek taxes - and deferred related taxes on the fuel through the end of this year
The tax-free diesel is typically used by farm equipment, construction machinery, trucks and other off-road vehicles. It is therefore exempt from a 24.4-cent-per-gallon tax applied to dliesel fuel sold for highway transportation.
Here’s what CNBC looks like in my browser.
Here’s an archive of the article if you’re wanting to read it and having technical difficulties (or for anyone else who is; sorry, the Wayback Machine doesn’t capture the full article).
I was never going to assume you were lying about your experience if you claimed “there is no article”; it’d be such a batshit claim if you knew one existed.
This is what the CNBC link looks like in my browser backing up my “batshit claim”.
Since we’re now insulting each other, I want you to know that shortly I will block you, as Lemmy is a much better place when we’re not interacting with people who make us want to insult each other. Goodbye.
backing up my “batshit claim”.
I said “it’d be a batshit claim if” followed by something that I acknowledged wasn’t true – a hypothetical. As in it would’ve been batshit to knowingly lie about that. I understood why you couldn’t read the article, but why you couldn’t understand this basic if/then statement is beyond me.
Tax relief to soften the impact of high fuel costs is pretty normal government thing. Is why tax-free diesel exists in the first place. Trump’s mistake was causing the high gas prices.
It’s interesting to see Trump floundering on what he thinks will be popular among voters. Doing things that help Americans is an afterthought, he’s scrambling like a failing student for extra credit ahead of the Final.
He just doesn’t want anything that might slow down/stop/reverse his smash-and-grab being done on the United States. He’s giving himself and his family billions of dollars.
Also, he wants to stay out of prison.
Having Democrats run both houses of Congress could be a (mild) risk to him.
Is why tax-free diesel exists in the first place.
Tax free diesel exists because the dyed diesel is not being used on public roads. Fuel taxes aren’t random government money grabs, they directly fund roads, bridges, and other highway infrastructure.
Fuel taxes aren’t random government money grabs, they directly fund roads, bridges, and other highway infrastructure.
That’s the budget the revenue from them goes into, but it’s only a drop in the bucket compared to the total cost of that infrastructure. The road system is massively subsidized from sources other than driver user fees.
Sure. My point was refuting the other user’s claim that “tax free diesel only exists to be a tax relief mechanism”.
Off road diesel is still taxed, you’re just not paying the FHWA excise tax if you’re not using it on highways.
Tax free fuel from the fool.
This is a Let Them Eat Cake moment.
