Posted on 03/26/2006 5:10:28 AM PST by runvus
Gas tax on miles, not gallons, tested PORTLAND, Ore., March 25 (UPI) -- Oregon is testing the idea of collecting highway funds through a tax on miles driven, rather than gasoline consumed.
Eighty percent of Oregon's highway money comes from its 24-cents-per-gallon gas tax. If the state promotes reducing gasoline consumption and consumers tend to buy the fuel-efficient vehicles, including hybrids, highway revenues would take a hit, The New York Times reported.
The test program uses a global positioning system to track miles driven, using a black box to calculate how many miles are clocked in-state, out of state and during rush hour.
The experiment is designed to increase state revenue for road maintenance without raising gasoline taxes, but critics say collecting GPS records poses new privacy issues.
"The existence of such a database, which would, for the first time in history, allow for the creation of detailed daily itineraries of every driver, raises obvious privacy concerns," said David L. Sobel, general counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group in Washington.
But that's too simple!
"How much would that cost?"
I don't know buy I want the contract to supply the four mounting screws.
Alright quit messing with us. Why did you land gear up? Yes, I want the full story. :)
Sort of reminds me of the dilemma that the government is in concerning smoking reductions resulting in reduced tax revenue.
What makes you think this was unintended? They are just following Britains lead in establishing a totalitarian society where a once free people reigned.
I think the trick will be to buy two of the same make and model car. Hack the firmware and flashthe memory in one blackbox to eliminate any unique ID keys to hardware in the car, then remove blackbox from car 1 and splice it next to the blackbox in car 2. The GPS unit will continue to collect correct key info, and the GPS tracking will have both cars permanently parked in your garage.
Make sure not to leave any physical marks on the blackbox case, and do some very high quality soldering, and your free of Big Brother and his mileage tax.
Amazing, isn't it?
The real goal of leftists is to get you out of your car and onto public transportation. Then they can mess with you via all the strikes by the unionized public transit workers shutting down the only way you have to go to work.
The automobile represents individual freedom. Mass transit = socialism.
The voters here in California are running a close second.
Sheared bolt on the right main causing it to fail up or down. It was just stuck mid-travel. Piper makes all their gears where the engine hydraulics keep the gear up. Should the engine fail or the airspeed drops to within 5KTS of stall speed, the gear drops on it's own. The only time this hereto perfect system becomes unperfect is when a mouse builds a large home inside your gear well. When the gear is attempted to be raised, the mouse house becomes a load inside a trash compactor. The result is bent metal.
When the English proposed something like this awhile back, I expected it to happen sooner or later here in the US. Frankly I thought it would be later though
So if an emergency comes up and a loved one is rushed to the hospital, you have to pay taxes to go see them. Really outrageous, to say the least.
The liberal fascists will do ANYTHING to control people and take their money.
Of course, those fools up there deserve the scum they elect.
Considering the amount that Bush has recommended to waste on hybrid research I do not see that is limited to one party
Absolutely no criticism intended here just searching for information because I fly quite a bit in private aircraft.
So is this a case of insufficent preflight inspection by the pilot or was the mouse house completely hidden from exterior view?
>>What did Ayn Rand say? You can't control free men. You have to make criminals of them.
See the first quote on my FReeper home page.
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