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States want fuel tax replaced - Fee-based sytem monitors car and computes charges
Houston Chronicle ^
| October 4, 2004
| LUCAS WALL
Posted on 10/04/2004 1:24:20 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Flyer
My first thought would be to...
Um...never mind. It's not a very appropriate comment.
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posted on
10/04/2004 6:30:40 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(W stands for whoop-a**!!!)
To: Montfort
I don't know what part of I-95 you were on, but doing the speed limit there is a great way to get rear-ended.
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posted on
10/04/2004 6:31:09 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
To: webstersII
How about the motive of the villain in "I-Robot?"
To: blackie
Oregon has already tested a mileage-based charge. It starts a pilot project next year with 280 volunteer drivers in Eugene...Okay blackie, you tell me. How come all the really stupid $#&% always seems to start in your neighborhood? ;-)
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posted on
10/04/2004 6:34:02 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
(Urrrrrrgh! Kerry! Baaaaaaaad!!!!!!..................Frank N. Stein)
To: Flyer
What should piss you off more is the use of a fat chunck of those gas taxes for collectivist BS like busses and carpool lanes...
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posted on
10/04/2004 6:35:38 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(This space for rent.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Yep, it's the Constitution Party. Read up on them on their website---www.constitutionparty.org. I don't agree with them on everything, but their stances on small government and on the moral issues of today are nearly dead-on with what I believe.
To: orangelobster
Why should people driving a fuel efficient car pay the same tax as a gas guzzler.
Anybody who thinks for a moment that the taxes on gasoline would go away under the mileage tracking scheme is beyond naive...
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posted on
10/04/2004 6:41:28 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(This space for rent.)
To: Rebelbase
I have not seen it in Texas, YET.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
If this comes to pass since these would be pay-per-drive roads we would expect better service and citys and other governing bodies would now be liable for damage to vehicles due potholes, nails, unplowed roads, road salt damage, wear to suspension from uneven pavement, time and money lost due to traffic jams and the whole host of other things we put up with now because the roads are "free".
Go figure.
To: TonyRo76
I've got something for that eyeball...
70
posted on
10/04/2004 6:46:27 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(This space for rent.)
To: rawhide
Enter the utility of the home built HERF gun...
71
posted on
10/04/2004 6:47:33 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(This space for rent.)
To: Condor51
Easy Solution right here.
State of Texas should tax aviation fuel. Texas is the only State I know of who exempts aviation fuel.
To: CGTRWK
Combined state and federal funding for highways alone are somewhere around 140 billion dollars a year.
And you already pay for that with car assesments, gas assesments, assesments on new housing construction, income taxes (for the DOD part of the interstate system), etc...
The only reason it doesn't balance is because it gets contaminated in the general fund and sidetracked into all sorts of doo-gooder BS...
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posted on
10/04/2004 6:50:41 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(This space for rent.)
To: Major_Risktaker
No signal, no registration, no insurance.
You'll be off the road pal!
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Don't need GPS to have this work. A straight billing of the miles traveled per year by your home state when you register should do just fine.
To: goldstategop
Big Brother in your car - now the government nickels and dimes you for driving to the grocery store and the local mall. They already do that to the tune of about 50 cents per gallon, or about 2.5 cents per mile.
To: CGTRWK
So, if the revenue is insufficient, raise the fuel tax. There is no justification for monitoring everyone's movements in a free country.
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posted on
10/04/2004 7:16:54 AM PDT
by
B Knotts
("John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.")
To: Hermann the Cherusker
3 cars, 1 Van, 4 pickups, all with no GPS, and no computer module. Catch me if you can!
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posted on
10/04/2004 7:17:58 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
To: Axenolith
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posted on
10/04/2004 7:22:07 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. -- Gen G. Patton Jr)
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