Committee considers tax for every mile driven (Will it replace the gas tax in NC? Nope.)

WCNC ^ | 11/21/08 | NATALIE DICK

[Libloather]

More details coming in the Carolina Journal.

[Gaffer]

Good, when they do that they can drop the ad valorem tax and state gas taxes on cars, then. Double, triple, and quadruple taxation is what’s coming folks!

[Pearls Before Swine]

Terrible idea, but... it would be one of the few taxes an illegal would have to pay.

[SkyDancer]

Soooo, like disconnect the odometer? put in a bypass one???

[csmusaret]

They should get ripping off the gas tax for the general fund.

[AGreatPer]

Bet there’s a Democrat behind this.

[FrankR]

I don’t know much about horses, but they would probably be cheaper to feed.

[FoxInSocks]

supporters' examples suggest beginning with a charge of a quarter-cent to a half-cent per mile per passenger vehicle

The rate will be permitted to increase, of course, at the legislature's convenience and greedy desire.

[RetiredArmy]

DO AWAY WITH THE GAS TAX????? GET SERIES!!!!!!!!! THIS WILL JUST BE AN ADD ON TO THE PRESENT TAX!!!!! You have been electing dimocrats NC, now you are getting it back.

[smokingfrog]

It’s none of the governments business how many miles I drive per year.

[Sloth]

Not a good idea, but less evil than Oregon’s Big-Brotherish notion of using GPS transponders to track your car (allegedly for similar ‘road tax’ reasons).

[midnightson]

They have kicked around making 95 a toll road—

[sionnsar]

I suspect that when the tax gets much above the cost of installing a new odometer you’ll suddenly see a whole lot of odometers that suddenly get unreliable shortly before inspection.

[RetiredArmy]

Then I would drive around it.

[captnorb]

It's those damn dem yankees moving in......Please take them back!

[elpadre]

NC can eliminate their financial problem for years to come by drilling for oil of the coast.

[cblue55]

The Dems have taken over every office in this state and it will continue to be one of the highest taxed states in the country. I wonder if folks in NC will ever wake up to what is going on here - I think it’s too late anyway.

[Glenn]

Government will eventually suck the very lifeblood out of the population. Then what?

[elpadre]

NC can eliminate their financial problem for years to come by drilling for oil of the coast.

[Proud2BeRight]

So when you NC residents drive out of state you would be paying NC tax?