Last Updated on July 18, 2024
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.
He’s also crossed party lines to vote against securing Arizona’s highly-controversial elections.
As National File reported:
In March of this year [2024], Arizona State Senator Ken Bennett joined forces with race hustlers, abortionists, illegal aliens, and environmental scammers, among others, to block legislation that would have limited early voting and forced Arizona counties to facilitate precinct voting, as opposed to the large-scale “vote centers” seen in the notorious Maricopa County, the state’s most populated area. The vote center election method has been slammed by critics and election hawks as deliberately chaotic and susceptible to fraud, and accordingly, Maricopa County has been plagued by election irregularities, election fraud, and outright election failures, with citizens being unable to vote in many cases, and many of those who do have no confidence that their ballot is being counted.
According to a report by the Arizona Daily Independent, in blocking the precinct voting legislation, “Bennett joins the State Conference NAACP, Common Cause, Planned Parenthood Advocates Of Arizona, Sierra Club, and the illegal immigrant rights group, Living United For Change In Arizona (LUCHA), in opposition.”
Read More: GOP State Senator Ken Bennett Sabotages Election Integrity in Arizona
Even more disturbingly, Ken Bennett has joined with Democrats to block Republican efforts to safeguard children against transgender grooming, AND, to block legislation that would’ve banned the construction of satanic altars and idols on state property.
As National File reported:
In February [of 2024], Bennett voted with Democrats to kill Senate Resolution 1013, which would have put restrictions on transgenderism in public schools up for a vote among the people of Arizona. If approved, the resolution would have barred public schools from allowing men to use girls’ restrooms and changing facilities (and vice-versa), while also barring public schools from socially transitioning children behind their parent’s backs.
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That same month, Bennett was one of just two Republicans to vote against the RESPECT Act, short for Reject Escalating Satanism by Preserving Essential Core Traditions Act, which would have barred the construction of satanic displays such as memorials, statues, and altars on public property in Arizona.
The final vote tally was 14 votes against the measure and 13 votes in favor of it, making Bennett’s vote a critical piece of Democrat efforts to in block the legislation.
