You know most politicians don't have the spine to raise taxes on the "masses." So instead, they design a new system that does the same thing.
I love the liberal hypocracy here. These tree-huggers love to preach that you should purchase one of these crappy hybrid vehicles or other wussy-Eurocars that are good on gas. Of course they forget that for each SUV taken off the road and MPG that is increased they lose their ability to sock it to you in the form of gas taxes. And what liberal doesn't like taxes?
So what do the liberals try to do? Neutralize the tax benefits of getting one of these girlie-cars by changing the system.
I don't want the stinking government having ANY sort of information on me. It's bad enough they set the speed limit artifically low to generate revenue. Putting a GPS device in there would be a windfall for them.
All I know is if the government is hell-bent on starting up this crap, I will be keeping my gas-guzzling SUV for a long time and hope that old cars are grandfathered in somehow. The ACLU better be all over this. In fact, we need some of the anti-tax groups opposing this too.