But, seriously, how do you think they going to tax your mileage? I'll tell you how, they are going to keep track of you via a GPS unit installed in your car!
Now, I'm no Constitutional scholar like Our Dark Overlord, but that sounds to me like it might just infringe upon the 4th Amendment...
Gas taxes should only be used for things that get driven on by cars and nothing else.
Ooops, that should be, “...how do you think they ARE going to tax ...”
We’re already taxed for the miles we drive through the taxes collected on the gas we buy to drive those miles.
GPS units need antennas.
Think Faraday cage.
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?
The GPS would be unconstitutional, but it would be efficient. Have you ever known the federal government to do anything efficient?
So, I predict they'll create the Department of Federal Mileage Inspection. That should be good for 15-20K SEIU jobs. Every year, you'll be required to get your mileage inspected, where you'll also have to pay an annual inspection fee and whatnot.
Wicked bastards!
The leviathan never stops inventing ways to confiscate our money.
federal toll booths on federal highways would be my guess
The 4th amendment to what? Certainly you jest with this bunch of Marxists in power? He'll do it with an Executive Order also specifying what kind of school lunches public school children must eat. Then it'll be 'for the children' don't 'cha know?/sarc
Try it thugs.
Eliminate 800% of all government agencies and fire everyone that works for them and WE DON’T NEED REVENUE ENHNACEMENT!
Stamps, tea....soda, mileage, it’s getting old. They believe they can just ‘help them selves don’t they?
GPS can be disabled.
Its time for pitchforks and torches at the Capitol, folks.
Where are our reps on this? time to neuter this beast.
It sounds to me like the ones in my cars would malfunction.
These people are simply insane....
“he noted the possibility of a VMT tax as a way to solve the problem of collecting less in taxes as people move to more fuel-efficient vehicles.”
HA, even more reason to NOT buy a Prius of Dolt, use less fuel and get punished with new taxes!
Just stop buying the damn “Green” machines, I think I need a car with two big engines, might as well have fun while I can.
I had heard that the technology would be at the pump, where current gas taxes are already collected. Everytime you pulled up to the pump, equip in your vehicle would communicate with the pump.
Where do all the federal gas taxes go?
Suppose we had this tax. Wouldn’t some of the greens be arguing that it ought to be replaced with a gas tax, to encourage people to replace gas guzzlers with more fuel-efficient cars?