Mileage Tax Might Be Road Bill Funding Source, Inhofe Says

Tulsa World ^ | 3/26/2009 | Jim Myers

[raybbr]

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe said Wednesday that a proposal to tax motorists on the miles they drive is being looked at as an alternative method to funding much-needed road projects.

Oh, so the 800 billion for roads and infrastructure was just another lie?

[Osage Orange]

I'm slowly coming to the point where I think the majority in both parties are playing a good cop, bad cop con game with the American people...and just switching roles every few years.

I am so ticked off at Inhofe it's not funny...

Until we have a true tax revolt.....these guys will continue to act like 16 yr olds with daddy's car keys and his credit cards.

FWIW-

[Non-Sequitur]

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe said Wednesday that a proposal to tax motorists on the miles they drive is being looked at as an alternative method to funding much-needed road projects.

Se let me see if I get this straight. Now the Republicans are the ones advocating new taxes?

[BigBobber]

Jeez, even the good guys are talking stupid now.

Folks, get ready for 24/7 GPS tracking of all your vehicles by the government. It’s coming. Annual odometer checking is the camel’s nose. After a few years GPS tracking will be found to be “more accurate and convenient”.

[TLI]

A VMT tax could be layered on top of the fuel tax, which might be reduced dramatically or eliminated altogether, Inhofe said.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yea, right.

[Osage Orange]

Apparently so.........

And the Pubbies wonder why they are in the minority?!?!?!

I'd be cracking up laughing if I wasn't so pissed off.......

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The so-called “much needed highway projects” won’t be needed. Nobody will be able to afford to go anywhere so the highways can just be abandoned for lack of use.

[Vaquero]

Time to dump the Republican party.

time for a new party now.

[Osage Orange]

http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.OfficeLocations

[angkor]

The disgusting pols keep floating this obscene “mileage tax” which has numerous implications for individual privacy.

And it also is extremely regressive against (a) rural citizens outside the Northeast and (b) people who are forced to make long commutes for economic reasons (no one really prefers a long drive to work).

I say this as someone who drives less than 7,500 miles per year, and lives in the semi-suburbs.

How can a a Republican from a midwest rural state advocate something like this? Inhofe should be tossed out on his ear.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Freakin moron marxist

[HighlyOpinionated]

"Ironically, the Tea Act had nothing to do with the American colonies but everything to do with rescuing the East India Company from bankruptcy: the result of the legislation was the loss of the American colonies." Marjie Bloy Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore

[paulycy]

Let me get this straight:

You mustn’t drive ‘cause it’s bad for the environment. You must drive to support the infrastructure, driving up your personal taxes and expenses.

You mustn’t smoke ‘cause it’s bad for your health. You must smoke to provide health insurance to children, driving up your personal taxes and expenses.

Soon: You mustn’t eat so much ‘cause of health concerns. You must eat more to provide health insurance to everyone else, driving up your personal taxes and expenses.

Does anybody else sense a double-speak pattern developing here?

Doubleplusungood.

[angkor]

>>>>> Until we have a true tax revolt.....these guys will continue to act like 16 yr olds with daddy’s car keys and his credit cards. <<<<<<<<

You’re giving them far too much credit, as if they are wayward children who don’t know what they’re doing.

But they do know what they’re doing.

They have absolute contempt for us, the citizens.

Contempt.

Inhofe is a “Republican”. And this is the kind of regressive and invasive tax that this alleged “Republican” contemplates for his rural constituents.

Utterly sickening.

[Osage Orange]

More to the point.....I could see Snowe, Collins, or Scottish Law Specter coming out with this..( IF they haven't already...)

But this is a supposely Conservative Republican....

Sigh.......

[raybbr]

I'd be cracking up laughing if I wasn't so pissed off.......

My wife keeps telling to get off of FR. It just makes me too angry.

It's come to the point where everyone in DC thinks that ALL the money is theirs to begin with.

[all the best]

There is not a dime’s worth of difference between R’s and RINO’s. It’s all a matter of degree not principal. Tomorrow’s “conservative” Republican will be to the left of today’s Dems.

[EGPWS]

Se let me see if I get this straight. Now the Republicans are the ones advocating new taxes?

Taxes?

It's none of governments GD business how much and where I drive taxes or not!

[Osage Orange]

Didn't say I thought they were 16 yr olds....

I said they were "acting" like them....