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CBO: Taxing mileage a 'practical option' for revenue enhancement
The Hill ^ | 03/24/11 | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 03/24/2011 4:37:42 PM PDT by DoctorBulldog

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released a report that said taxing people based on how many miles they drive is a possible option for raising new revenues and that these taxes could be used to offset the costs of highway maintenance at a time when federal funds are short.

The report discussed the proposal in great detail, including the development of technology that would allow total vehicle miles traveled (VMT) to be tracked, reported and taxed, as well as the pros and cons of mandating the installation of this technology in all vehicles.

"In the past, the efficiency costs of implementing a system of VMT charges — particularly the costs of users' time for slowing and queuing at tollbooths — would clearly have outweighed the potential benefits from more efficient use of highway capacity," CBO wrote. "Now, electronic metering and billing are making per-mile charges a practical option.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbo; democrats; donntreadonme; economy; govtabuse; liberalfascism; obama; standdown; taxcheatparty; taxes; tyranny
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To: DoctorBulldog

All good points, but I think it’s going to be easier to implement something that’s connected to the car’s on-board electronic system rather than a GPS technology that seems to be easier to interfere with.


101 posted on 03/24/2011 6:37:39 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Glenn

Look at #49!


102 posted on 03/24/2011 6:37:53 PM PDT by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: glorgau

There will be a huge market for slightly over sized tires. Then the gov’t will have to inspect cars for anything that may change the odometer reading.

It’s inevitable that this sort of tax would require government Gps units that could provide complete data of everywhere a car was driven. Then it would be subject to search warrant and subpoena.

It would be a huge invasion of privacy.


103 posted on 03/24/2011 6:38:44 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: maine-iac7

Exactly!


104 posted on 03/24/2011 6:44:50 PM PDT by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: RipSawyer

“One day they will figure out how to tax how much I piss.”
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“Isn’t beer taxed already?”.

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Ha ha, it sure is


105 posted on 03/24/2011 6:49:25 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: castlegreyskull

No, no, no, never happen...would reduce beer consumption too much...LOL


106 posted on 03/24/2011 6:49:28 PM PDT by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: DoctorBulldog

“Let me be clear”: Confiscation is always a viable option for revenue enhancement.


107 posted on 03/24/2011 6:53:59 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: DoctorBulldog

“Let me be clear”: Confiscation is always a viable option for revenue enhancement.


108 posted on 03/24/2011 6:54:15 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Alberta's Child; All
you say: “ I think it’s going to be easier to implement something that’s connected to the car’s on-board electronic system rather than a GPS technology that seems to be easier to interfere with.”

Trucking: GPS Fleet Tracking lets you monitor your mobile assets and personnel's movements and activities. With this Fleet Tracking information, you can reduce unauthorized overtime, find more effective transit routes, and streamline operations. ... The GPS Fleet Tracking solutions available offer outstanding vehicle tracking, location mapping and fleet management services, to monitor your entire fleet operation at a reasonable price.”

This system is up and running across the county. they just want to plug us private citizens into it - to TRACK us..our every movement. Get it?

And on the heels of that they will start issuing mile allowances. they will decide how many miles you can use in a given time. (Of course, if y ou’re a ‘friend of the administration, you can get a waiver.)

FOLKS: this is NOT about taxes. It's about control. Stop dragging your noses on the grass, trotting along behind the bellwether sheep. He's gonna lead you over a cliff.

109 posted on 03/24/2011 6:58:35 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("We stand together or we fall apart" mt)
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To: DoctorBulldog

Looks like the CBO is ready to shut this economy (what’s left of it) down real good.


110 posted on 03/24/2011 6:58:42 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: Alberta's Child

True. But... We’re talking about an increasingly fascist Federal government, here. You really think they’re just interested in mileage?

Cheers


111 posted on 03/24/2011 7:13:28 PM PDT by DoctorBulldog (Here, intolerance... will not be tolerated! - (South Park))
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To: DoctorBulldog
The government at its true Goodfellas best.

Want to drive a big, gas-guzzling SUV because you prefer them? F you, pay me.

Want to drive a small hybrid or electric car because you care about the environment and/or want to save money? F you, pay me.

112 posted on 03/24/2011 7:14:49 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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To: DoctorBulldog

We need to eliminate every last bit of Leftist influence to the course of our Nation since day one, and especially since the Woodrow Wilson era.

Hit the reset button, but NOT Hillary’s.


113 posted on 03/24/2011 7:22:33 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: DoctorBulldog

One very important aspect of Communist States is LIMITING MOVEMENT of citizens.

The TSA Scan & Grope program has this same effect (among others). Individual movements could be tracked, but they won’t be — unless you are already a “person of interest” to the State. Limiting movement has the effect of limiting the spread of information and ideas, and preventing groups of like-minded individuals from gathering (or “community organizing”). Limiting the mobility of the populace is as much a tenet of running a totalitarian state as limiting the flow of information, the flow of wealth, or the flow of food.


114 posted on 03/24/2011 7:28:11 PM PDT by PENANCE
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To: NewHampshireDuo
No satellite signal, car doesn’t start.

Two words: Kit car.
115 posted on 03/24/2011 7:37:00 PM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: DoctorBulldog
as well as the pros and cons of mandating the installation of this technology in all vehicles.

Hmmm... sounds like the mandate that we have to buy health insurance. I doubt this will go anywhere fast. I don't see the House Reps going along with this.

116 posted on 03/24/2011 7:53:15 PM PDT by upchuck (When excerpting please use the entire 300 words we are allowed. No more one or two sentence posts!)
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To: maine-iac7

Thinking about the lyrics for “taxman”....


117 posted on 03/24/2011 7:58:57 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: RayChuang88
A better solution for encouraging people to drive more fuel-efficient cars is to impose an excise tax...

FAIL!! Where are you posting from; the Supreme Court??

You actually think we care to imitate the overbearing tax-raising methods of used-ta-was European socialist governments??

Get me the name of your dealer, 'cuz you're smokin' some SERIOUS hooch!

See, here in this Constitutional Republic, the way we go about encouraging people to drive more efficient cars is — and this is really novel — WE ACTUALLY TRY TO MARKET EFFICIENT CARS THAT PEOPLE WANT TO DRIVE!!

You know what happens then?

The people that want to drive them go out and buy them, and they actually DRIVE them.

I'm tellin' ya, man; the free market is totally righteous; you oughta try it sometime.

P.S. — Senator McCain, tell your Euroweenie friends to piss off.

118 posted on 03/24/2011 8:15:17 PM PDT by HKMk23 (It won't be "Justice" until wicked people fry.)
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To: DoctorBulldog

sfl


119 posted on 03/24/2011 9:14:29 PM PDT by phockthis
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To: DoctorBulldog


120 posted on 03/24/2011 9:17:13 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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