Posted on 12/29/2014 3:44:05 PM PST by TurboZamboni
This policy brief focuses on the challenge of developing a viable, user-friendly, per-mile charging system to replace fuel taxes for the nation's major highways. In doing so, it outlines 10 reasons why per-mile tolling is a better highway user fee than fuel taxes. Reason 1: Per-mile tolling is a direct, rather than indirect, user fee. Motorists would pay for the amount of service they received; they would pay providers directly for providing that service; and they would know exactly how much they were paying and what they were getting for it. Reason 2: Per-mile tolling is a sustainable long-term funding source for long-term infrastructure, which does not depend on the energy source used to propel the vehicles. Its transparency should help rebuild trust in the highway funding system. Reason 3: Per-mile tolls can be tailored to the cost of each road and bridge, rather than being averaged across all types of roads, from neighborhood streets to massive Interstates; this ensures adequate funding for major highway projects like Interstate reconstruction and modernization.
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>> “Because government is not intrusive enough?” <<
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That must be it!
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No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
And just for good measure. No!
I do not want the government knowing where and how much I drive.
I am envious.
BITE YOUR TONGUE.
I have the utter misfortune of renting a car at DFW and taking the Toll Road that apparently has no toll booths... Oh, pay by mail? Great... so I need to somehow remember THAT when as it is I can not remember what I ate for breakfast this morning? It gets better... because it was a rental, Hertz bills you through a 3rd party outfit. That toll? Billed to my CC for $1.80 PLUS a 20something Dollar “Plate Pass” fee. Had I known I would have whipped the car onto the shoulder through the grass and gotten off that shitnado of a road.
Trust me... you WANT A TOLL BOOTH.
I seem to recall the formula for road degradation based on tonnage is a 5th order function as in weight to the 5th power. I would have to look it up though.
Toll Roads would allow for tracking of ones travels as well as be used like the Pennsylvania Turn Pike is/was to issue citations if you make point A to point B less than in the minimum official time allowed.
Actually much of the mileage taxes are already being paid by commercial vehicles. They are charged by the miles driven in a state. Big trucks especially dump trucks inflict the most damage to roadways being the reason.
Reason 11: The government can now track your every movement.
If we allow ourselves to be suckered into paying per-mile tolls, in a very short while we’ll be paying BOTH; the toll AND the tax. It’s a ruse. A scam. When has government EVER done ANYTHING to make things fairer or less costly for the taxpayer?!
Government never ever replaces a tax. They always add it to existing taxes.
The government wants to know where you go and when you go. If it knows those two things, it will know other useful things like how fast you go.
Correlating your information with that of others, they can make an educated guess about what you’re doing when you get there. They will be able to build a profile of your associations.
They will know if you are spending a lot of time at a shooting range (of interest to the ATF), participating in Tea Party activities (of interest to Homeland Security and the NSA), eating unhealthy fast food, or getting drunk on a regular basis at bars (of interest to the Obamacare Death Panels), or spending a lot of time at flea markets or casinos (of interest to the IRS).
People like King Obola have wet dreams fantasizing about having this much power over their subjects.
My BS meter is pegged.
Don’t worry, they will just do all of the above. Fuel tax, license fees and tolls.
So long as it all continues to be dumped into the ‘general fund’ and IOUs deposited for the earmarked collections, the criminality will continue with ever new ways to lie about collecting your earned wages for their wasting. Thus we see ‘the great society’ of the murderous lying scumbag racist Johnson and his democrat party ilk.
A GPS with civilian grade receivers can directly observe not just the latitude and longitude of the to within 10 meters, it can determine velocity to within 0.1 meters per second. The government wouldn't even need to figure out how much time passed between to two booths on a highway. They could just look at the log of the GPS based tracking system.
Which is one reason I will not be buying any new vehicles.
“Its easier to keep a state under control than it is to keep the feds under control.”
Perhaps. But once the money’s in the General Fund here in CO, it’s gone.
I have a better idea. Get rid of the gasoline excise tax and forget about replacing it with a toll tax.
When I had an 82 Trans-am, it was so low to the ground that I always found quarters on the ground at toll booths. Just picked them up and tossed them into the basket. Never paid those tolls.
BWA HA HA HA HA
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