What happens to my mileage tax when a squirrel gets under my car and chews my GPS wire and antenna?
Posted on 12/16/2008 5:06:20 PM PST by Sammy67
First, they hand us our Obama-approved tire gauges.
Next, they police our odometers. Fresh from North Carolina, here’s the latest Nanny State proposal: Monitoring our odometers and taxing us accordingly.
With gas-tax revenues plummeting, the state of North Carolina is looking seriously at taxing motorists for how far they drive.
If the “road-use tax” is implemented, it would at first be simple – with the state checking your odometer annually and taxing you based on how many miles you have driven. But transportation experts say new GPS technology could allow the state to
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They are just looking for new money and are shy about raising gasoline taxes which is virtually the same thing- there is a direct relationship between the amount of gasoline purchased and the miles driven.
Two “moderate” taxes on the same thing look like less than just a single humongous gas tax.
The government which governs least, governs best...
So much for retiring to NC
I don’t know what is the matter with the gas tax. It’s worked well enough over the years...
“With gas-tax revenues plummeting, the state of North Carolina is looking seriously at taxing motorists for how far they drive.”
The gas tax already taxes us for how far we drive, plus it automatically takes into account how good the gas mileage of our vehicles is.
These a**holes need to, in these financially leaner times, they need to tighten their state budgets and stop looking for new ways to fleece the citizens.
I spent a year of my life in Russian Town, Brighton Beach NYC. You would be surprised, how easy it is to roll those odometer things back. Question, if at the yearly “check up” my odometer reads less than it did the year before, does the government owe me money? Inquiring minds want to know.
What happens to my mileage tax when a squirrel gets under my car and chews my GPS wire and antenna?
There is NOTHING like the smell of Revolution in the morning. Bring It On!
The sad thing is it will be another “full bill” for the elderly.
Living on a fixed income and paycheck to paycheck it’s hard to come up with all the “full bills” NC and the local governments charge now.
Fayetteville charges $10 per vehicle plus the Cumberland County vehicle tax - lump sum due. County and city taxes - lump sum due. And now the new tax based on miles driven - another lump sum tax due.
If you think that is crazy you should see who we elected as Governor =(.
That's an easy one.
Just like if you lose your ticket on a toll road,,,
you will be charged the highest possible rate.
Welcome to an even bigger Big Brother.
Well what happened with the cigarette tax? They sued the tobacco companies into oblivion then raised the taxes on cigarettes so people couldn't afford to smoke, then they banned smoking everywhere, but they need the cigarette tax to help "pay for health care" (wink wink). They price and tax something out of reasonable reach then find another way to impose a new tax on the same thing using a different method. These people are insane and somebody more insane voted for them!
Oh yeah, the Toyota Prius drivers are going to be delighted to know that they will now be paying exactly the same tax as a Cadillac Escalade or Chevy Suburban drivers.
So immediately the new bureaucracy will have to have different tax rates for every different vehicle and you'll have to keep track of all your different vehicle's miles to ensure that you're not being charged the wrong rate.
Under Roe v Wade we have a right to privacy, how will we have privacy being while watched 24/7 by the Department of Motor Vehicles?
OR
We could continue to use the gas tax that works almost perfectly with a very small government bureaucracy.
They had better not. We have one of the highest gas taxes in the country.
You ain’t kidding! I watched one debate and she could not utter one coherent sentence.
Geez, after reading about NY state’s new tyrannical tax scheme, I thought maybe moving to NC would be a good idea. Never mind! Is there any state that is still FREE?
And what if the driving is out of state? Will they be taxing mileage in states other than NC?
Pennsylvania has been collecting odometer data for years through annual safety inspections (entered in the inspection mechanic’s log) and through annual vehicle registration renewals (entered by the owner on the paper form—not collected if renewed over the internet...at least, not yet).
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