Posted on 02/20/2009 4:11:38 AM PST by Man50D
Doubt it. But if this does happen, I predict that my Jaguars will have “trouble” with the electrical system that causes the devices to wipe, or just fry them entirely.
After all, we all know how Lucas cars are... :P
People will just have their odometers turned back. Will they tax us next on how many hours the televison is on?
As Rush is fond of saying, liberals judge other liberals on their intentions not on results.
in this case the speedometer cable has nothing to do with it since it’s tracked by gps and IT calculates how many miles you drive..
see my #25..odometer has nothing to do with it..your cars location and miles drives are calculated by the gps..
drives = driven
I'd be happy to see them get a bonus performance incentive based on how much they reduce taxes and the budget over the previous year.
Clearly, “Travis the Chimp” is alive and well and has been transferred to the transportation department.
This may be the dumbest idea in the history of dumb ideas.
*The compliance cost on both the motorist’s side and the government’s side will almost certainly exceed the tax revenue generated.
* As the article stated, it will discourage the use of fuel efficient vehicles.
* It will undoubtedly be plagued by massive fraud. Hackers will roll back the milage on the chips, phoney chips will be sold, and a thousand other scams will emerge.
*The idea that there is a “one way” data transmission from satallite to chip is nonsense. Even if it were true, the government, or anyone else could download the details of your driving record from your chip, so privacy would certainly be compromised.
Since the program would be extremely costly and bring in less tax revenue, clearly, the agenda is to monitor the movement of Americans.
Ray LaHood needs to get Santellied!
Ahhh, the "imputed tax" rears it's ugly head again. This idea was first floated by the Clintoon administration back in 1993 or 1994 as a way to fund Hillarycare. The way it would work was the gubmint would review the value of your home and decide what it would rent for. If your home would rent for say, $2000/month or $24,000/year, then you would owe income tax on that amount of "imputed income". Never mind that if you rented your home you wouldn't have a place to live. You would owe the tax because you "enjoy" the benefit of living in a home that could be rented for that amount. Nice, huh?
Nationalized banks, socialized health care, using taxpayer money to bail out deadbeats who agreed to mortgages they knew full well they could never repay, bailing out miserably failing automotive businesses and the unions that ruined them, a mileage tax, salary caps for executives in private industry, the Fairness Doctrine, increased welfare bennies for deadbeats who refuse to work, numerous tax cheats appointed to high level cabinet positions, amnesty for criminal illegal aliens, making nice-nice with known enemies, and the list goes on and on and on. These Obamalamadingdong folks are absolutely begging for a revolution.....
If they didn't want shit such as this they would not have voted for the bastard.
Before he is through, Hatti will have a higher standard of living than the United States. But again, this is what the American idiots want.
46% didn't vote for this bastard.....
I have been warning people they are looking for a way to capture the lack of revnue from Hybrids and Electrics since their is no fuel tax on the "Fuel".
Look what Michigan did to diesel fuel tax after the Rabbit Diesels hit the shore here and got real popular.
Same $&!+ different day....
I’d be happy with some justice (tar & feather, jail time, etc.) for elected officials when they squander my tax contribution irresponsibly and/or unethical practices.
A tin foil hat for the GPS antenna should take care of that.
Thank goodness that Obama brought RINO LaHood on board. What a nice show of bipartisanship. He sure is helping to balance the agenda. Barf.
If you figure the percentage of Americans who vote and vote legally I figure that somewhere between 15 and 20 percent of Americans voted for him.
The last 30 days of the Obomber have been well beyond my worst expectations.
Government officials have lost their fear of the citizens. Time to return to the old school ways. I suggest bringing back tar-and-feathering for starters.
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