States Mull Taxing Drivers By Mile

CBS | Feb. 14, 2005 | [none cited]

[BenLurkin]

Lousy idea, IMO.

[Vaquero]

every gallon is already taxed and taxed and taxed ad nauseum

[bigfootbob]

Time to REVOLT!

[skip_intro]

Kim and his team at Oregon State University equipped a test car with a global positioning device to keep track of its mileage. Eventually, every car would need one.

Call me stupid, but I thought a speedometer already did this.

[dandelion]

Do we have a link?

[RetiredArmy]

BIG GOVERNMENT, BIG TAXING, BIG SPENDING, BIG BROTHER continues it's taxing ways of hitting your pocket book. Bad enough they tax you to build the stinking roads, now they will tax you for using the roads that your tax dollars built!!!! Folks, IT IS TIME FOR A REVOLUTION. IT IS TIME TO TAKE BACK THIS REPUBLIC FROM THE FOOLS IN THE VARIOUS LEGISLATURES AROUND THIS REPUBLIC! Call it what you like. Soon, you will not have a dime to your name. You earn $5,000 a month. You will give $5,000 a month to the government. To reissue as they see fit. BIG GOVERNMENT. Led by republicans, democrats, communists and socialists. They are all doing it.

[American Vet Repairman]

"Officials in car-clogged California are so worried they may be considering a replacement for the gas tax altogether, replacing it with something called "tax by the mile."

"Seeing tax dollars dwindling, neighboring Oregon has already started road testing the idea. "

First these idiots bitch when you use gas, and then bitch when you don't pay the taxes since you are not using gas.
Al Qaeida is not our worst problem...the Al Gores of America are.

[ECM]

An odometer, even ;D

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Sorry, no link. Apologies for the dupe post.

[odoso]

Stop the illegals from entering our country for a period of 1 week a year. There's your savings required to maintain roads and highways in America.

[Bahbah]

Call me stupid, but I thought a speedometer already did this.

Yes, but the government can't make you bring it in to read it.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Yes, but a mere odometer would imply voluntary reporting > compliance and obviate the need for a new revenue-collection beaurocracy. Can't have that.

[Frohickey]

The problem in California is not that there is enough gasoline taxes taken in. The problem in California is that gasoline taxes are rolled into the General Fund instead of a specific fund to be only used for road repairs. Because the gasoline taxes go into the General Fund, the politicians start using the money in the General Fund for their stupid socialist welfare projects.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

This is just un-friggin-believable.

In Washington state, our car tabs used to be based on the value of our cars. I drove a BMW, but didn't need to drive much (I put 30k on it in six years) - I was paying $700-$800 a year to license my car. A liberal friend of ours who drives and economy car, and drives a LOT more than I do, sent me email opposing the initiative that lowered our car tabs. In his mind, I should have paid much more than him - even though I used the roads less - because I had a nice car.

I don't like this at all, and I can't imagine the rank-and-file hybrid-driving lefties are going to stand for this either. It doesn't hurt rich people enough.

[Navy Patriot]

BIG GOVERNMENT, BIG TAXING, BIG SPENDING, BIG BROTHER

All done by incrementalism by reasonable moderate citizens to their own children.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Whoa!

All those caps made my ears bleed!

We know about the Dems, and their spin doctor Dean. We can stop them. VOTE. Tell others to vote and tell the who you are voting for and why. Don't waste you breath on hard core Libs, they will vote for satan if he ran as a democrat. (really, I have had two people tell me this, one flashed his DNC card as he did)

Push for voting reform so the dead and other can not vote let alone vote twice.

We can not become Canada.

[massgopguy]

Inspection Sticker Time.

[massgopguy]

Inspection Sticker Time.

[freedumb2003]

First these idiots bitch when you use gas, and then bitch when you don't pay the taxes since you are not using gas

Imagine what would happen if the War On Smoking succeeded. Some states would have to declare bankruptcy!