Mileage-based tax proposed[NC][Levy on car's odometer]

Charlotte Observer ^ | 11 Dec 2008 | Mark Johnson

[MrB]

lots of unintended consquences here,

but leftists NEVER consider that people will change behaviors based on incentives.

The one I thought of, if they replace the gas tax with a mileage tax, there will be less reason to drive a fuel efficient car.

[massgopguy]

This is the tax collector your talking about. The onus is on you to prove those things.

[wally_bert]

Whatever NC comes up with, SC will eventually follow.

[Busywhiskers]

There is already a mileage tax...it’s called the gas tax.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Not surprising from a state that in the 1960’s had a tax on the average balance of your checking account and a legislature that argued over tobacco taxes for the entire session without doing any other work.

[peeps36]

Filthy politicians will try anything and everything to squeeze more money out of the working man. No amount of money will satisfy their outrageous spending habits. These pigs worship money and power, and they will do whatever it takes to obtain it.

[JSDude1]

What in the world is going on in NC, lately..Geeze my former home state has gone absolutely insane since I lived there in the 90’s??!

Should I refer to NC as the “Massachussetts of the South”?

[Logical me]

Fear not; we'll simply pass a different tax scheme and snare them.

No problem. Electric meters on the cars and automatic reader setup at the authorized DMV smog registration points. Registration renewal will require car to pass through like smog inspections now. Problem solved.

[Tijeras_Slim]

WTFIIWNC?

[DeFault User]

Not surprising from a state that in the 1960’s had a tax on the average balance of your checking account...

60's? The Supreme Court finally threw out this travesty (called the intangibles tax) in 1996. It not only hit your checking account but any stocks or bonds you owned.

North Carolina has the highest income tax in the region, above national average gasoline tax and puts a sales tax on virtually anything that is billed.

I got a bill from my leasing company for property taxes owed on my cars. There was a sales tax added based on the amount of the property tax. Needless to say, the Old North State has been ruled by Democrats for years.

[VeniVidiVici]

Should I refer to NC as the “Massachussetts of the South”?

I do. And I don't live there :)

Between the illegals and the carpetbaggers, NC went to hell several years ago.

[thefactor]

maybe they should, oh i don’t know, REDUCE SPENDING!

[Vinnie]

The NC legislature raids the Highway fund for hundreds of millions of $$. Then moan ‘no money for roads’.

[Myrddin]

This stupidity keeps coming up. People in Idaho went after Butch Otter when he suggested it. Taxing people on mileage driven off state roads and out of state is just plain wrong. Otter (and others) forget that odometers record all mileage. They don't just record mileage on state constructed/maintained roads. Gas taxes are reasonable in that they are distributed across states. Federal and state taxes are collected nominally where they are used.

It would take a very sophisticated GPS based tracking system to separate legitimate use of state/federal roads from off road and out of state use. Even the best GPS based nav systems with DVD databases would be challenged to sort out the details. Perhaps a raw dump of bread crumb tracks could be digested externally. That is a major breach of privacy.

Contact your legislators and object strenuously. Don't let the camel get its nose under the tent.

[Myrddin]

Not surprising from a state that in the 1960’s had a tax on the average balance of your checking account and a legislature that argued over tobacco taxes for the entire session without doing any other work.

I'll bet the mattress was king as a banking tool with that kind of stupid policy.

[JimRed]

New cottage industry: odometer adjusting.

[B Knotts]

It’s not just about more taxes...it’s about tracking and eventually regulating and limiting your freedom of movement.

[Dead Corpse]

Privatize all of our Roads and I'd have no problem contracting with competing companies for this.

As it is, it's a Big Brother taxation nightmare.

[cva66snipe]

Ever felt like the United States has turned into Green Acres and the government is Mr Haney?

[Cheetahcat]

I thought the communist tax on fuel paid for the roads but again it must go into the common rat hole known as the general fund we got to keep that welfare food and money flowing