Posted on 05/20/2015 11:34:05 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Oregon is about to embark on a first-in-the-nation program that aims to charge car owners not for the fuel they use, but for the miles they drive. The program is meant to help the state raise more revenue to pay for road and bridge projects at a time when money generated from gasoline taxes are declining across the country, in part, because of greater fuel efficiency and the increasing popularity of fuel-efficient, hybrid and electric cars.
Starting July 1, up to 5,000 volunteers in Oregon can sign up to drive with devices that collect data on how much they have driven and where. The volunteers will agree to pay 1.5 cents for each mile traveled on public roads within Oregon, instead of the tax now added when filling up at the pump.
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Sure. Just give up all your privacy.
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Exhibit 4,204 of ‘What happens when leftists get what they want.’
That would be great if you drive a vehicle that gets poor mileage. I wonder if semis are eligible.
I guess all of those green-minded, pro-big government, enviro-friendly taxpayers don’t mind not saving money by driving an electric car anymore.
The cyclists up there must be feeling pretty superior. I guess when the State decides that the miles taxed should apply to them, and pedestrians, then maybe they will understand what it is all about.
Nah. They’ll just find something else to blame. Not the government. Never the government.
REBEL. I will absolutely rebel against this, if it comes to my state, with armed civil disobedience if necessary. There is NO REASON for any government to have this data, except to take freedom.
Government!
Taxes are meant to modify your behavior, that’s what they are for. So a gas tax makes you want to use less gas, good for national security, good for Toyota, good for the polar bears, good for the angry sky gods, good for you. So you use less gas, and your masters decide that what they really wanted was for you to not go places at all! This is what you get for obeying your government masters.
I ride my electric bike to and from work. My wife walks. On rainy days I will drive the 4 miles each way though.
History has taught us this over and over and over and over...............
“It will not replace the gas tax. It will go on top of the gas tax.”
Yup, I agree 100%
Get a 1965 Chevy pickup, and a handful of extra speedos from Ebay. Every reporting date, mix and match!
How long before we start seeing stories about how badly this tax has impacted the working poor stuck driving older, less efficient cars 20 miles or so to the only job they can find? Did the green zealots even consider that?
If IT FEEEEEELs goooood.. Lettt’s do IT!!
Great way to track the public AND get your friends exempt from the tax - just remove their transponder ID from the database used to issue tax bills.
Basically the same thing they do for EZPass and automated traffic enforcement.
And if the per-mile tax were in effect, they would be advocating a per-gallon tax because a per-gallon tax would not be such an invasion of privacy, and a per-gallon tax would encourage people to get more energy-efficient cars.
No. I would pay $110 with the current per-gallon taxes, and $144 in mileage-based taxes.
5000 volunteers from Portland... the agenda is strong, indeed.
Mandatory no cash for clunkers. Walk on poor peasant.
Hmmmmmmm. Does anyone know a company that makes a device that alters mileage on the car’s cpu? I need to make an investment in their technology
Paying by the mile to use roads would be, uh, difficult at best to enforce — unless we all want our cars fitted with GPS tracking. Taxing by vehicle weight easier and fairer.
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