Bureaucrats Gone Wild.
What’s with NC? Isn’t that where Nifong is from?
Waitaminute. So let’s say there is a public transit system in Charlotte, and you live in town and there is a bus that can take you to work, and you take it. Are you going to get fined as well, or is that tax included in the cost of your bus fare? This just sounds nuts. What if you ride a bicycle, etc.
They’d tax walking if we couldn’t drive.
Notice it was the GOOBER-ment that came to price-gouge him and not the evil oil companies.
No good deed goes unpunished!!
This shouldn’t surprise anyone on this forum. Government bureaucracy is insane! Of course anyone who believes that burning vegetable oil in their car is going to solve our energy “problem” is insane also.
Figure out a way to propel yourself along the road with the methane from your f*rts, and some an*l retentive, egomaniacal commissar somewhere will insist you wear a meter on your butt. And rent the meter from the government.
Such are the times in which we’re living.
I give the 2 handed middle finger salute to these intrusive, tyrannical government agencies. Puke on them ALL as they rip us off immensely.
If you don’t pay fuel taxes but use the roads, you should expect to pay the road taxes.
I believe off-road use (farm and construction equipment) would be road tax free. In fact off-road use of diesel gets you a tax credit to pay you back for the road tax built in that you’re not liable for.
Okay, am I the only one who keeps wanting to read that as “brothel”?
Considering that the govenment should be encouraging people to pursue alternatives like this it dumb.
In fairness, I do want to point out that the tax, although levied on fuel is really a road usage tax. The guy does still use the road so it’s not as stupid as it sounds at first. But still pretty stupid.
This is the kind of thing that makes it insane for people to try to force us to think that Matthew 17, 22 and Romans 13 is telling sovereign American citizens to pay any taxes the government tells us to pay. Our submission over the years without taking our head out of the sand, and letting government go to this extreme is one reason this man is going through this.
The sovereign citizens of the United States are collectively “CEASAR” under our Constitution, not the federal government.
Wonder how much they would have charged me for ‘evaded’ motor fuel taxes, way back when I was driving old, oil burning clunkers that barely got 100 miles/quart?
Every where I went, I made sure I had a case of cheap 50wt in the trunk.
12,000 miles/100/year = 120 quarts/4 = 30 gallons of oil * ~.$40/gallon tax =$12.50/year I “cheated” California out of some 35 years ago.
Hope the Statute of Limitations has run out!
I really don’t have much sympathy for this guy. He knew he was evading a tax and still using the roads the tax was designed to support.
Road taxes based on fuel usage has always been a poor method of allocating costs, and as alternative fuels become more widespread it will only become more inequitable. The solution should not be to try to devise new taxes to target all the possible fuels people could use to power a vehicle.
We should take the philosophy that roads are just infrastructure and benefit everyone in an area, so they should be paid for from the general fund. Even a mileage-measuring tax would not really allocate the cost of road maintenance accurately. Trucks and buses do much more damage to roads than passenger vehicles, yet their mileage is not an accurate measure. Including the vehicle weight as a factor would get closer, but still not accurate by any stretch of the imagination. Bicycles put very little wear and tear on roads but bike paths and lanes are disproportionately expensive to construct compared to the person-miles ridden over them.
People that never drive still benefit from the goods and services that roads allow, yet must pay through some convoluted function of the price on the good or service.
Why not jsut call it all infrastructure and pay for it through the sales tax or property tax, instead of trying to do it through “use” taxes that bear no relationship to the costs of that use ?
The bastards don’t care if you pollute. They just want your money.
How the hell did they find out? Did he go around advertising?
Let's re-calculate this after the government taxes ... He now spends 70% more than diesel fuel. :)
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