What's there to think about? The minute this idea came up, Schwarzenegger's response should have been simple:
This idiotic idea keeps popping up, and I'm having a really hard time seeing a reasonable justification for it other than wanting to be able to track everyone's movements. If the gas tax isn't bringing in enough money, then raise it. There's no need to invent a new tax and spend millions on the infrastructure to support it.
None of these Big Brother advocates has explained why the gas tax can't simply be raised, if they predict shortfalls.
We already have something simular to that. It is called tax on gasoline.
Not good news for folks in rural areas. May be it time to convert to corn oil...
Time to reactivate the TAR & FEATHER motivation for ignorant "public servants"!
Every time one comes up with one of these asinine ideas or proposals -- out comes the feathers and fire up the tar!
Riding them out on the rail is only for the celebration afterwards.
First 5,000 miles per year: $0.02/mile
5,000-10,000 miles: $0.04/mile
10,000-20,000 miles: $0.08/mile
over 20,000 miles: $0.12/mile
This seems like Arnold is sending up a trial balloon, to try to found out the nature and extent of the opposition to this. (Makes me glad I voted for McClintock.)
The potential for this to be abused from a privacy as well fiscal standpoint is huge.
Miles Driven Tax? Isn't that called the Gas Tax?
Anyone remember Moonbeam Brown's DMV brain trust with the name Adriana Gianturco. She single handily set Cal Highway construction back 50 years into the future...
Ironically, the more efficient your vehicle is, the more taxes you pay. Everyone will just buy five gallon fuel cans, disconnect "Big Brother" and cheat the system.
I pay a "road tax" in the form of fuel taxes even though I am powering generators and air compressors on construction sites. How about lawnmowers? Let's really make it complicated!
I'm going to put together an instruction manual for each car on how to disconnect the speedometer. I have 10,000,000 potential customers at 9.99 each (plus shipping and handling).
After getting ticketed by one of those traffic cameras recently, I was thinking today while on the 405 how long it will be before there are cameras on the freeway taking pictures of all of us who are exceeding the 65 MPH limit...
Actually I am of two minds on this. One part thinks it's the greatest idea since sliced bread. Nothing like liberals screwing their lives up even more.
The other part acknowledges that California has the fifth largest economy in the world and if they finally destroy themselves their likely to take the rest of our economy down with them.
I took guilty pleasure during the energy crisis they had. I should go to confession over that now that I think of it.
If we had a true blue conservative governor, a lot of this foolishness would be nipped at the bud!
of course, the government is more entitled to spend my money than i am.
What's there to think about? The minute this idea came up, Schwarzenegger's response should have been simple:
The gas tax is a milage tax....the idiot!!
This is just another excuse to prove the "need" for the black boxes to track you movement. If they just wanted more money, they could bump two cents per gallon and pay .20 like Texans.