Senator Chuck Schumer and Dems are freaking out over a proposed $200 electric car tax.

First, road repairs are funded through gas taxes and a big selling point for EVs is that they avoid gas taxes. The Dem solution to this was a creepy plan to track every car’s mileage. A flat car registration tax on EVs is a fairer and much less Orwellian solution that doesn’t involve detailed government surveillance.

Second, EVs were incredibly subsidized at the expense of actual car owners through redistributionist mechanisms such as carbon taxes. Car owners in places like California suffered to subsidize EVs.

It’s only fair that some of that money be paid back.