yup, cause simply adding more taxes on a gallon of gas won't let them track us...
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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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Bring back the horse and buggys. I’m sure they’ll find a way to tax that, too.
yup, cause simply adding more taxes on a gallon of gas won't let them track us...
“Why hasn’t the government strapped a meter to the chest of each American and started charging us for the full value of the air we use?”
Shhhh....don’t give ‘em any ideas!;)
Death tax.
Bingo.
Most of us are. But what about the electric cars?
And bicycles?
Bicyclists will say they don't have as much impact on a road. Well, they take up pavement space or they demand bicycle lanes. Who pays for that? The gasoline users?
They could have an annual tax based on odometer reading and vehicle weight. But no odometers on bicycles so maybe a flat tax for them. Or a tax on their tires.
That's it! A tire tax. Doesn't matter if you push 'em with gasoline, electricity, or muscles.
Some idiot the other day was purposing a 10 cent per roll tax on TP.
Really? In my city, and others that I've heard, you can get a separate meter that measures the water that you use for the lawn, and you don't have to pay sewer on that water. Have you asked your water company about that? In my city, the
Oops. I meant to say that in my city, the meter is $250 or so.
I know that song. It's a rap song about a dealer demanding owed money from an addict. The threat of force is there.
Kinda like the government.
do these disconnected fools realize how much tension is apt to be released with this kind of BS ???
control food and movement, sounds like what i would plan if I were trying to keep my slaves on the plantation...
on the bright side, being a wrench turner could make me $illions in disabling this junk science/tech...
The city specifically set up the system so that they get higher revenues. They actually have to use fire hydrants to flush the drains because people conserve and use less than the optimum amount to keep it free flowing, thus wasting water. Government, you can’t live with it, and you can’t bury it in your back yard.
Well, this won’t increase the cost of food now will it.
I am getting so sick of the plunder. This tyranny has got to stop.
CO2 TAX
The average person exhales 17,280 times a day. Each and every living human being should be taxed for that CO2 emission at the rate of $00.001 (one-tenth of one cent) per exhale, or, $17.28 per day. Add the same for each pet.
That way we can all contribute to this funding problem Osama's guv seems to have.
CO2 TAX
The average person exhales 17,280 times a day. Each and every living human being should be taxed for that CO2 emission at the rate of $00.001 (one-tenth of one cent) per exhale, or, $17.28 per day. Add the same for each pet.
That way we can all contribute to this funding problem Osama's guv seems to have.
The insurance industry already has GPS installed on every new vehicle in the USA. That way the can tell how fast you were driving when you had an accident ..
*SHHHHH**** don;t tell anybody it’s a secret.
I will never forget riding in a U-haul, 7 months pregnant in -10 weather, from St Louis to Minnesota where my husband’s first parish was located. When we hit Iowa I remember grabbing my mid-section and holding for dear life because it was so bumpy and it hurt so bad. It was at night and we probably stopped about 100 yards away from where a bridge was being redone; there was no way to get across because the bridge had actually been demolished. There hadn’t been any signs to warn us or to tell us to take a detour and it was just a good thing my husband thought something seemed strange. Turning around the U-haul which was pulling a car behind wasn’t fun.
To this day we still laugh about Iowa roads.
It’s sort of bittersweet laughter though because the child I was carrying at the time died, stillborn at 42 weeks for unknown reasons. We had moved our stuff to Minnesota and then stayed with my parents in northeast Nebraska to wait for the baby to be born. She was overdue and after we checked into the hospital for a non-stress test to see if the baby could withstand induction of labor the next day, she died in the middle of monitoring.
Within a week’s time I had gone to the hospital to deliver my firstborn, she had died, I had given birth, we had buried her, and we had moved to Minnesota for my husband to start the ministry. Thank God for the good people in our parish, who adopted me as if I was their own sister or daughter. They knew I was a hurting unit and loved me right through it.
Funny how so much of life is a bittersweet mixture of sadness and joy.
Anyway, we try to avoid Iowa roads if at all possible. lol
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