Posted on 01/14/2013 2:32:31 PM PST by lowbridge
An on-again, off-again move by the Obama administration to scrap the federal gas tax in favor of a pay-per-mile fee would boost the tab to Americans as high as 250 percent, raising their current tax of 18.4 cents a gallon to as high as 46 cents, according to a new government study.
But without a tax increase, said the Government Accountability Office study, the government's highway fund is going to go dry. One reason the fund is going broke: President Obama's push for fuel efficient cars has resulted in better mileage, and fewer stops at the pump.
The GAO study is just the latest review of federal spending that paints a grim picture of the nation's infrastructure. Just keeping spending at current levels, the GAO said, would require a near doubling of the gas tax to 32 cents a gallon, and that would jump to as high as 46 cents should the federal government add spending to fix crumbling infrastructure and build new roads.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
If they’d stop dumping billions in to “mass transit”, I suspect there’d be a lot more highway funds to go around. Hell, I’d be happy if they’d just keep the gas taxes in the states it came from.
I hear you...and we both know it’s coming.
I’m old enough (and have enough money) to not really care, for me...but my kids will be stuck in the Orwellian world that we create...and that bites.
I wonder the same thing every day.
Bowman, where are you?
Any plan to use GPS tracking will destroy travel privacy.
Nice govt. building you have there, it’d be a shame if the trash can caught fire.....
It’s something new each and every day with these MF’ers.
Did anyone really think the new government mandated automobile Black Boxes were to study accidents? My guess is that Congress has had “pay as you go” in mind for years and here’s the enforcement tool being rammed upon us.
I agree. It is a way for the Obamoids to track our every move. Very Big Brother.
ping to self for later
“So at what point do the people wake up and shoot the bastards?”
Not soon enough.
You’ve touched on something; people in rural areas and suburban commuters will be hit far harder than the EBT card holders dwelling in cities.
People in high stress overcrowded cities vote for democrats... ( lies work on those who are desperate - they'll work on us too)
Laws like this preserve beautiful parts of the country for liberal elites. They'll be able to stop finding nonexistent snail darters on beautiful land ( land they want to confiscate for their own use - not buy) Liberals will make it too expensive to drive a long distance to a job. Cram citizens into ghettos...
1. - They get to raise taxes even higher than they are now.
2. - They will implement this with GPS which gives them the added benefit of tracking/recording your movements.
Oh, I understand now, you are thinking perhaps they’d eliminate the gas tax. Dream on. They might reduce it and give it another name but this Administration doesn’t eliminate taxes.
I would much rather have a mud hut and a bicycle and freedom than to see what they really have planned for us.
“The whole thing is and was a farce so let’s not go there again.”
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Absolutely, possibly the best thing Gov. David Beasley did for South Carolina was to get the annual inspection killed. The fee that was charged was set by the state and was not sufficient to cover the paperwork so anyone who actually tried to do an honest inspection had to lose money on it. The only way to come out ahead was to tell people they needed repairs they didn’t really need and make up the costs on the repairs. There were a lot of “inspection stations” that just looked at the lights and issued a sticker. They only did that to avoid sending their best customers to someone else for an inspection. It was absurdity on wheels.
“might be a good idea to tattoo your number on your arm so you don’t forget it.”
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I thought the location was supposed to be either the right hand or the forehead.
There was a time hen computers were actually creating more problems than they solved (sometimes I wonder if they still are). I used to be a tech rep trying to get some very poor designs to work in the field the way they worked in theory. In some cases the computerized machine didn’t even come close to working as well as the older manual models. Even today my wife and I often shake our heads in the checkout line at stores because it takes far longer to get checked out than it used to forty years ago when it was all done manually.
Would that there really existed a simple solution. I sometimes remember reading Castenada many years ago and regardless of how kooky he may have been there was some truth hidden in his books. I remember when Don Juan tells Carlos that his path must be chosen wisely because by the time a man realizes that he is on the wrong path that path is ready to kill him and he cannot go back the other way or something to that effect. It applies to nations as well. This nation has been on the wrong path for as long as I can recall. It was on the wrong path long before I ever had a clue about it.
This.
They cannot collect this conceptual tax without knowing this. And they can go fuck themselves. Yes, I swore on FR, because that's how mad I am about this.
Deval Patrick, the governor here in MA, is proposing this for here.
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