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Did you even read the article? Bonner's only the messenger boy. The message itself came from Barofksy, who is a democrat by the way.
How the heck are they going to enact a mileage tax without sticking a gizmo in the car to report the mileage to The Man??
Require owners of such vehicles to track their odometer readings when filing their annual income taxes. Or, if the state requires annual safety and emissions inspections, they could take the readings there, too, and then send the owners a bill.
Under (a), can I lie and get away with it??
With (a) you could lie up until the time you sold the vehicle. Not all states require annual inspections, so they would require some other method of collecting the tax or validation. The problem is, when you do sell, because everyone sells their non-collector vehicles eventually, and if you're under reporting your mileage from year to year, you'll get slammed the year you sell it.
The states are looking for methods to collect a road-use tax on electric vehicle owners because they're not paying gas taxes. If you own a car with a combustion engine, the tax would not apply because you're already paying the gasoline use tax. And according to that site, these EV owners "want to pay their fair share." Given the known trends of people owning those vehicles, I believe that site's statement on such a matter to be more true than false.
Watch the Vampire State do both.
Oh well, like I always say, you can either complain, or find a way to make the most of the situation. Maybe I should brew beer as a entrepreneurship; it's tax exempt. When you live in a state like this for nearly 27 years, you start to get irritated by it.
Critical repairs are in fact part of the highway funding, so why should we make special exception to something that already exists? Unless you're talking about going in the red and taking from other areas, in which case why not create rainy day funds (which, quite frankly, would help to eliminate a lot of pork spending that is done)? One thing that I've thought would be a decent idea is to create toll roads (or even toll zones in the case of municipalities) and then eliminate the need for state/federal gas taxes, because then you truly are paying for the roads where you drive. When it comes to enforcement, tie it to registration, just like how out-of-state tickets work (at least in NYS, there is no reporting to DMV or insurance if you are convicted of a moving violation unless you don't pay the fine, minus a couple of exceptions), or connect it up to the E-ZPass system. The technology is available to do high speed collection including license plate recognition, and for those worried about its use, pass laws like NYS has to make it unavailable as court evidence for other charges.