A better solution for encouraging people to drive more fuel-efficient cars is to impose an excise tax based on engine displacement and physical size of a car--something that has been done in Europe and Japan for several decades.
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...
Well, there goes the CBOs last clinging threads of credibility.
I think its’ gettin’ to be time to tax that gubmint ass.
100$ rate.
No credits.
Lock your bathroom doors folks. The SOBs will be installing counters on your toilets next and taxing you by the excrement unit.
Does this mean they will get rid of the tax on Gasoline? I’m sure.
Juat how many taxes do they need to work on roads. Especially when it on took Japan 12 days to repair a destroyed roadway.
Gas tax. ( oh yeah that goes into the General Fund just like SS Taxes) Yearly license renewal taxes. Taxes taxes taxes. STOP spending!
And, oh let me guess, GE will manufacture the monitoring devices?
It ain’t about the revenue, it’s about the tracking. We’ll all be turned into mini Al Capones cheating on the confirmed mileage.
More tax and spend from democrats. The GOP House would be crazy to go along with this big brother scheme, let the wingnuts own it.
A better solution for encouraging people to drive more fuel-efficient cars is to impose an excise tax based on engine displacement and physical size of a car--something that has been done in Europe and Japan for several decades.
That's the whole plan. To keep track of our movements AND to decide just who gets to drive how many miles. (Shades of WW11 gas ration books.
I remember back in Carter's orchestrated gas 'shortage', I was living in Calif...the democrap senator from SAn Francisco, who had his own 5 car garage full of Mercedes, remarking that the common people didn't need to be driving around anywhere they wanted to. That is the mindset of the bourgeoisie - still. They really believe they should be controlling the daily lives of the proletarian peasants.)
Their highway miles money is collected from every gallon of gas we buy - it's where it goes and doesn't go from there that is the question.
I have a son who is a longhauler and he can tell when he crosses certain state lines because of the condition of the roads.
Indeed, I have even b een able to tell when talking with him on the cell (calm down, he uses a Blue Tooth) that I can HEAR it.
The common denominator?
Long time republican governed states - smooth roads and great truck stops. The money collected for roads ACTUALLY goes to the roads. What a concept.
Democrap run states: the opposite - like Pennsylvania and Illinois. Their roads are abominable. AND they have the highest gas tax, the most tolls, etc.
WE must NOT let this tax per miles get any traction. They've been trying for sometime.
The irony of all this is that this kind of measure is being proposed to address declining fuel tax revenues due to several factors, including: (1) more fuel-efficient vehicles (under Federal fuel efficiency mandates), and (2) more and more cars on the road that don't use gasoline (again, under Federal mandates).
The Federal Gas Tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. Money that is supposed to be used *exclusively* to improve highways.
According to the federal government’s energy.gov website the US consumed approximately 140 billion gallons of gasoline in 2004.
140,000,000,000 x .184 = $25,760,000,000.
It seems like you could fix a lot of federal highways for $25.7 billion.
Back when it was first built, the US Interstate Highway system was built entirely from gasoline taxes and user fees.
We who ACTUALLY PAY OUR TAXES will be paying even more for 0’s vacations, his wife’s vacations, the jaunts with the family take-alongs and SUV gas the wasteful leftist in this administration are using.
The scumbag politicians are still reeling from the collapse of their “global warming” scam and the tax windfall they were expecting from “carbon trading” and its associated banking and Chicago Stock Exchange shenanigans.
The scum will stop at nothing.
The fact is, people already pay a “mileage tax” every time they fill up their gas tanks, the frequency of which is based on how many miles they drive freaking duh.
One day they will figure out how to tax how much I piss.
Taxes, taxes, taxes. :)
Raise ‘em, raise ‘em, raise ‘em!
Can’t figure out who’s crossing the southern border - that’s too hard, but they can keep track of how far we drive.
Have a nice day peasants. :)
What a great way to stimulate business. Who do they think drives all the miles? It ain’t the food stamp, welfare crowd. It is business people out making it happen. Servicing accounts, delivering things, selling things, etc. How anti business can it possibly get?