What’s wrong with building a tamper-proof odometer and making tampering with one a RICO-eligible felony with a minimum 10-year prison term?
“What’s wrong with building a tamper-proof odometer and making tampering with one a RICO-eligible felony with a minimum 10-year prison term?”
Well, I’m no fan of these little black boxes, GPS tracking, etc. however, right now hybrids and ev’s are not paying their fair share of road taxes which are paid at the pump on a per gallon purchased basis. Farmers and ranchers have dealt with this for decades by keeping logs of their use of non-road fuel. But, I doubt that you could trust the general public to be so trustworthy.
OOH, better still make it a mandatory death penalty
Not RICO, but what you describe is already a felony, and has been for a long time.
See 49 U.S.C. § 32703(2)
What compelling State interest requires the State to know anything at all about the mileage you freely choose to put on your car?
What right does the State have to say you cannot "tamper" with anything that is your own property?
Knowledge is power. The less the bureaucrat-tyrants know, the better. A lack of a freedom to move...is a lack of freedom, period.
I would actually be in favor of this, because I have two cars that don’t get particularly good mileage, and, for the purposes of the ROAD TAX (which has been STOLEN FROM for other purposes, allowing the fund to be depleted and roads to deteriorate), cars with great gas mileage are getting away with not paying their share of the wear and tear on the road (they almost all weigh more than mine, BTW).
HOWEVER, even if a totally foolproof, secure, private, and hack-free way was designed to collect this information, you can JUST BET that this tax would come as a NEW TAX and not a replacement for the tax that exists now.
Also, the rat bast#$23 liberals are just drooling over the possibilities of taxing you more to go into congested areas at certain times (=generally wealthy areas, by the way), which will certainly involve recording WHERE you were and WHEN.
What’s wrong with building a tamper-proof odometer and making tampering with one a RICO-eligible felony with a minimum 10-year prison term?
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I drive A LOT of miles , I have had odometers fail ,, odometer alteration is already a federal offense but I understand at least 30% of used cars have their odometers altered by used car dealers ... the electronic ones are the easiest to change ... in fact cars shipped between the US and Canada (for sale) must have their odometers altered by law from/to miles/kilometers and the reading reset to match.. you can find dozens of odometer shops that will do it for you near the border .. or just mail your odometer to dashpro.com
You can always visit a junkyard and buy a gauge cluster with a lower mileage showing.