Posted on 03/15/2016 6:43:08 AM PDT by rktman
On the surface - and for all you shallow thinkers out there who are besotted with the idea of "fairness" - the proposal makes sense. Those who use the highways more should pay more, right?
Um, no not really. The idea that the government should be able to monitor your driving is antithetical to the idea of liberty. And does anyone believe that the monitoring would stop there? There would be calls to install breathalyzers in every car, governors to prevent you from exceeding the speed limit. Perhaps they'd figure out a way to charge you for excess emissions.
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The communists have long wanted to limit and monitor mobility.
No thanx....I’mma country boy. I won't pay your stinking tax.
And when they see you’ve arrived at the shooting range......
gee.
I wonder what percentage of whites compared to Obama’s sons have cars?
Why not just tax us for every breath we take?
WE ALREADY PAY BY THE MILE!!!
Only, they measure it in GALLONS!
**Those who use the highways more should pay more, right?**
They do. They buy more gas and therefore pay more in gas taxes.
This is all about big brother.
I might be willing to go along with it-but only one condition:
charge every politician $25,000 per each lie they tell.
Can’t or won’t pay it? Throw them in prison until
they do.
That has been in the works for a while as carbon credits.
When people leave their homes (by car, foot, bicycle, whatever), they enter public spaces that are patrolled by the police. Those people should pay more towards the police budget than those who just stay home and watch TV.
Therefore, the government should mandate that every citizen wear a locator device on their person. It's only fair.
And notice that I said "citizen" in the above. Illegal immigrants would not be subjected to this. Just because.
This proposal shows how libs screw with a person’s mind.
Those who drive more already pay more. It takes more fuel to drive more, all vehicles being equal.
But liberals say they are not equal as smaller cars buy less fuel and so pay less in gas tax.
Yep, they do. Because liberals forced them to.
They also cause less wear and tear to the roads.
The fuel tax is most likely the most fair way to pay for roads because it charges users in direct proportion to how much they damage the roads. A monster truck that buys one gallon of fuel to go 5 miles is paying almost ten times as much to go 40 miles as the driver who gets 40 miles to the gallon.
If you thought the blowback from the 55MPH speed limit was bad...
We are already taxed by the mile. every time we fill up we pay the tax per gallon
If you/we have to send in our mileage 2x/year to our insurance companies, the state has that information.
This is one of those sticky wickets.
If you are a conservative, you believe in paying your share of costs like contributing to Free Republic.
If you are really a liberal, you want someone else to pay for your costs like never contributing to Free Republic.
There’s a commercial for a Chevy car that mutes the radio until you out your seatbelt on, I guess that gives some people warm fuzzies but it infuriates me.
Why not just tax us for every breath we take?
We pay taxes on gas.
Those who drive more already pay more taxes.
I am so sick and tired of people whose only goal in life is to bilk more money out of us.
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