News flash: People aren't stupid, and you're not that smart. NFA tax stamps aren't still a thing because people don't see the tax loopholes as a ban or infringement on the 2nd Amendment. They absolutely do. They've just grudgingly accepted there may be some positive utility to it. What you're talkong about is nothing but velvet gloved taking by policy.
And other posters are right. It'd be a shitstorm.
And the sort of person that is big about "personal responsibility" for others but calls personal responsibility for themselves "taking away" is actually somewhat stupid in their hypocrisy.
Unless all that "personal responsibility" is actually just backwards justification for a system that's rigged against people without wealth and power and the right skin color, but it couldn't be that could it?
We need to stop these cowardly politics appeasing automobile users. This is how.
Perhaps it's time Americans stopped reacting like conditioned Pavlovian dogs to the mere word "freedom"? Not all "freedoms" are unequivocally good.
- sales tax on cars/trucks is by weight and exponentially increases the heavier the vehicle gets
- increase taxes on gasoline
- require a special license to operate a vehicle over XXXX lbs.
- rewrite laws or encourage DAs to prosecute drivers that injure other people in cars or pedestrians even if it's unintentional
- illegal to have passengers in the truck bed (some states still allow this).
These are just off the top of my head.