[runvus]

And the Libs in Oregon are worried about President Bush listening in on Terrorist's cell phone calls!!!!???? :-/

[guestfox01]

The experiment is designed to increase state revenue for road maintenance without raising gasoline taxes, but critics say collecting GPS records poses new privacy issues.

"The existence of such a database, which would, for the first time in history, allow for the creation of detailed daily itineraries of every driver, raises obvious privacy concerns," said David L. Sobel, general counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group in Washington.

The next thing you know they'll be asking for your papers when the Gestapo welcomes you to Oregon.

[xrp]

Total collapse of state economy, tested in Oregon!

[Thoro]

And the Libs in Oregon are worried about President Bush listening in on Terrorist's cell phone calls!!!!???? :-/

Looks like it was a Republican nannystater who came up with this genius idea. From the article about this at

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001972174_mileagetax05m.html

"In 1999, Ford brought some of its alternative-fuel-concept cars to Salem, Oregon's capital, for a demonstration. Bruce Starr, then a Republican state representative from the Portland suburbs, took a spin in a $6 million fuel-cell vehicle. "I got to thinking, 'What happens when you encourage high-mileage vehicles?' " Starr remembers. "That was in some respects the genesis of this."

[TruthWillWin]

Sort of reminds me of the dilemma that the government is in concerning smoking reductions resulting in reduced tax revenue.

[af_vet_rr]

"The existence of such a database, which would, for the first time in history, allow for the creation of detailed daily itineraries of every driver, raises obvious privacy concerns," said David L. Sobel, general counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group in Washington.

Even though it's early, can we nominate him for the understatement of the year?

[antceecee]

Amazing, isn't it?

[billbears]

When the English proposed something like this awhile back, I expected it to happen sooner or later here in the US. Frankly I thought it would be later though

[Republican Wildcat]

So if an emergency comes up and a loved one is rushed to the hospital, you have to pay taxes to go see them. Really outrageous, to say the least.

[Lancey Howard]

The liberal fascists will do ANYTHING to control people and take their money.
Of course, those fools up there deserve the scum they elect.

[SaintDismas]

Yeah well, they would just track my ass right out of their stinkin state and forever. Glad I don't have to make that decision, man oh man Oregon is becoming Nazified right before our eyes.

[Travis McGee]

Comrade, if you're not doing anything illegal, why should you mind a government GPS tracker in your car?

[Galveston Grl]

Leftists are going to impose their values on the nation through behavior taxation. That is just great and so much better than Falwell taxing each act of viewing porn. /s/

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

"The experiment is designed to increase state revenue for road maintenance without raising gasoline taxes, but critics say collecting GPS records poses new privacy issues."

Not to mention punishing you for where you may live and which route you choose to take to work and back. Proof? That they want to distinguish between rush hour and non-rush-hour traveling intimates they are going to charge more for sitting in traffic.

Talk about a deprivation of liberty without due process.

How have we gotten here?

[HitmanLV]

Why make it more complicated? Cars have to get smog tests and such once a year, so just have that test include the number of miles on the speedometer. Subtract from last years total and add the tax on the miles driven to the smog test fee, plus a buck or two fee for the tester. Nice and easy.

[claudiustg]

So now the lefties want to trash privacy rights and fuel efficient cars in order to gain tax revenue, too funny!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

BIG BROTHER AT ITS WORST!!!!!!!!!!

[Old_Mil]

Watch - if this catches on in one state and sticks, others will soon follow. State governments are hungry for $, and will go to any length to get it.

[Salvation]

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[Osage Orange]

Heck....

Insurance companies want to have GPS units in every car..and sensors that track your speed.

And there will be people that say..."I feel like that's a good thing!!"

[TChris]

So, they didn't eliminate the gas tax, but added a mileage tax on top of it? Terrific. What progress.