They had "other" and "bigger" purposes in mind.
Posted on 04/15/2016 4:28:18 AM PDT by markomalley
The Illinois Senate is considering a bill that will tax drivers 1.5 cents per mile they drive, because of a loophole in the state’s current gas taxation law that excuses owners of electric cars, starting July 2017.
“If all the cars were electric, there would be no money for the roads,” Illinois State Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, told the Daily Herald, a suburban Chicago paper. “The Prius owners are the reason we need this bill.”
The bill, which Cullerton is spearheading, said car owners or lessees can choose one of three ways by which the state will measure mileage. Two of those ways involve a device within the car, which will either track GPS location and stop measuring when the driver leaves public roads or monitor odometer readings. The third option is a flat tax, where a driver would pay $450 each year, the equivalent of driving 30,000 miles on the 1.5 cent tax, and not be monitored.
Illinois drivers are already plagued with the second-highest gas prices in the nation, due to heavy taxing at the city and state levels, so Cullerton’s bill will include a tax refund for drivers to ensure they aren’t double taxed.
The bill will also create the Illinois Road Improvement and Driver Enhancement Commission for the purpose of administering the conditions of the bill, and create an advisory board for the I-RIDE Commission. According to the Illinois Policy Institute, the chairman of the commission will receive an annual salary of $18,000 and the four other members will receive a salary of $15,000.
“The administration of such a large-scale tracking and monitoring system seems a behemoth task – with every possibility of going awry, considering the layers of bureaucracy that would be needed to administer such a program,” writes Hilary Gowins, of IPI, a research and educational organization aimed at promoting personal freedom and prosperity in Illinois.
10.4 million cars are registered in Illinois, and, due to the tremendous financial undertaking this bill promises, Republican state senators, such as Sen. Matt Murphy, R-Palatine, have already expressed criticism at the current state of the bill.
“This one will probably require a thorough vetting,” Murphy told the Daily Herald.
Especially tough for people who live in rural areas. But, that is what they do...we carry the weight of the cities, in terms of taxes on our shoulders.
Movement tax. Those walking will have the GPS implant/pedometer and be taxed accordingly. /s
The states have become the stomping grounds for socialists.
T.E.A.
Illinois is 100 billion in debt, they are desperate to find new revenue streams.
CC
Scumbags plain and simple
Can’t wait until the first criminal case where someone is convicted for something because their car GPS put them in the vicinity of a crime.
And shot.
This will encourage better management of the public trust and increase the quality of the gene pool.
If everybody rode bicycles there would be no money for roads
The roads will remain unmaintained and the money will go to Chicago.
They had "other" and "bigger" purposes in mind.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA .
RRRIGGHHHTTT. A handful of all electric cars on the road. Some hybrids that DO USE GAS. But they need to tax EVERY car NOW.
ILLINOIS, LAND OF SUCKERS is what their plates should read.
And they can watch them drive right out of Illinois forever. Illinois is already one of the fastest evacuating states; maybe it will take the lead for good with this.
Af’nmazing......
‘They’ all demand this crap and when it happens, cry about it.
Put in a speed camera and when drivers start observing the posted limit -’they’ cry about no revenue - EVEN though the claim it was for safety, NOT MONEY.
Nothing new, I remember years back when the local Gas or Water or Electric Company pleaded for conservation .... people cut back and the rates got raised for loss of revenue.
Give up your gas guzzlers and get a fuel saving car - then raise rates because of lack of revenue....
Same line with early BO malmisadministration giving the car buyback....All it did was take USED cars off the road and make it harder for those that relied on cheap transportation.
Of course, that was just a money give away...
Then ‘they’ say they can’t understand why I am ‘mad’ and rebellious
Bump.
Someday, those living in Illinois will stop voting for the Democrats. Glad, very glad, I don’t live there.
Then they should impose this new tax ONLY on electric cars. Gas powered cars are already paying gas taxes.
Yep, it’s amazing the number of Illinois license plates I’ve seen in N GA the past year. Probably more than NJ.
Better yet, employ the concept of decimation. One in every ten politicians, no matter their level-Federal, state, local, community. Heck, why not every 10 who aren’t in office. Take into account even retired or erstwhile politicos. Extend it to bureaucrats and administrators and assorted apparatchiks.
And...how much money is wasted on welfare, needless government projects and programs, out of control budgets within all government that is simply guessed at and 15% added each year to show the money is needed?
When you mix the words “government” and “professionalism” you get a system that simply a lie. There is no “professionalism” in ANY level of government.
All budgets are based upon what will make the majority vote for the politician (or party) that “bends over” for special interests and politically correct programs.
By the way: Any time that ANY proposed government program or regulation is even mentioned...IT WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME LAW! A statement that has never wavered in the name of history.
That happened to Aaron Hernandez.
Wake me when the shooting starts.
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