Not necessarily opposed, given three provisions:
1) replace (not in addition to) gas tax
2) mileage reported only, not destinatio/location (via encryption)
3) rates based on vehicle weight so the electric cars with their massive batteries take it up the tailpipe
Forget all that. They are about control and inflicting pain.
“ 2) mileage reported only, not destinatio/location (via encryption)”
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Are you KIDDING me? You actually trust the government to do that? You clearly don’t understand 3 things:
1. Federal and local prosecutors will demand and even subpoena such information. They have done exactly that with the information from automatic toll collection databases - Hell, even divorce lawyers are getting the information! When you are driving on public roads, you have NO expectation of privacy.
2. Even if there is a legal exception to the no expectation of privacy principle is carved out in future legislation, it WILL be ignored. The BATFE has built and maintained a database of gun purchasers DESPITE a clear prohibition on doing such in the 1986 FOPA.
3. The encrypted info WILL be hacked and sold to the highest bidder. Aside from the direct harm that such a release will do to our privacy, the FBI will “recover “ copies of whatever was hacked as part of their criminal investigation - and both keep and use the information forever. Oh, and there will be regular hacks, by secretly paid government hackers if no one else.
Please, once power is given up to any government, it is extremely difficult to get it back.
Why does an electric vehicle need a tailpipe?
<>Not necessarily opposed<>
If the general welfare of the country is the standard, then nothing this administration does makes sense.
OTOH, if one assumes that everything it does leads to more rat power over individuals, then everything it proposes makes perfect sense.