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MILEAGE TAX PROPOSED BY GOVERNMENT ON HOW FAR YOU DRIVE
The HANNITY SHOW ^ | 03/11/09 | Kackikat

Posted on 02/21/2009 4:01:37 AM PST by Kackikat

Last night the Hannity Show said that the dems are discussing a new MILEAGE TAX on how many miles we drive.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodot; debt; dictatorship; doubletax; driving; hopeychangey; lahood; mileage; mileagetax; redistribution; taxes; taxincrease
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To: DivaDelMar; Bobalu; Mercedes718

>>>> They want to track it via a GPS. <<<<<<

It won’t happen with GPS. Too unwieldy.

See my #37 above.

The requirements for auto retroconvert, system infrastructure, tracking systems, personnel, staffing, taxing agency, etc. are staggering.

There really aren’t enough technical people around to build this kind of a system for the feds, and it would take a decade, minimum, if ever.

Not to mention that it would suck BILLIONS from the economy.

It’ll be odometers, and even that will be a huge logistics problem (aka “expensive resource sucking government farrago”) and cause a great deal of political downside for the Rats.


41 posted on 02/21/2009 4:47:39 AM PST by angkor
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To: xzins

“reeducation camps” with the Obama Civilian National Force, at the FEMA CAMPS already established. That is why they want the junior high kids involved...remember the video’s.


42 posted on 02/21/2009 4:52:21 AM PST by Kackikat (.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
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To: Kackikat
>>>> in last days “they will call evil good, and good evil.” WE are there. <<<<<

Don't be too silly with the Biblical Gloom and Doom Apocalyptic nonsense please.

The evils of government have been recognized by all peoples at all times and in all places throughout recorded history.

In the previous century alone we had Hitler, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mugabe, Rwanda, and other butchers and their atrocities.

A trial ballooned and stupid mileage tax is not indicative of your “end times”.

43 posted on 02/21/2009 4:53:55 AM PST by angkor
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To: angkor
That was precisely my angle yesterday. And even if the government did devise a practical method, it would take a decade or more to put into action and start making money.


44 posted on 02/21/2009 4:56:01 AM PST by stentorian conservative (FUBO!!)
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To: angkor

I believe they will find a way to tie it to your refilling of gas at stations, and a way to read your mileage before filling up. It may take a new type of odometer and technology may already be in works for it. It isn’t going to take place tommorrow, but if they pass the law as, they are planning, they will spare no expense to implement.


45 posted on 02/21/2009 4:56:20 AM PST by Kackikat (.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
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To: Woodman

absolutely, and the fine greater than driving 25,000 miles per year.


46 posted on 02/21/2009 4:57:36 AM PST by Kackikat (.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
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To: Mercedes718

You have a husband and a fiance? Do they know about each other?


47 posted on 02/21/2009 4:57:42 AM PST by Library Lady
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To: angkor

Just because prophecy is being fulfilled doesn’t make it gloom and doom, just another point on who and what is happening.

Now for an important point here, it is double taxation to be paying a gas tax and a mileage tax at the same time. We need to be concerned that doesn’t happen in other areas, because you can only cut the income pie in so many pieces.


48 posted on 02/21/2009 5:03:15 AM PST by Kackikat (.It's NOT over until it's over and it's NOT over yet....The Trumpet will sound....)
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To: Kackikat

>>>>>> It may take a new type of odometer and technology may already be in works for it. It isn’t going to take place tommorrow, but if they pass the law as, they are planning, they will spare no expense to implement. <<<<<

Just one or two practical issues to work out:

a) Retrofit 100 million++ vehicle
b) Plan, fund, build the data collection infrastructure
c) Plan, fund, build the tracking infrastructure
d) Plan, fund, build an “invoicing” and payment receipt backoffice
e) Adjust as needed for lobbying, exceptions, alterations, investigations, prosecutions, etc. when things go askew
f) Find the people to plan, build, and maintain this parallel taxation system


49 posted on 02/21/2009 5:06:41 AM PST by angkor
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To: riverrunner
I think it is to eventually control where and how far we can go. Watch them start advocating for installing limiter chips in the GPS system installed by mandate in your vehicle. A voice will warn you "Mr. FReeper you are approaching your mileage of no return for today please turn around and go home."

Or "Mr. FReeper you are approaching a 'No Go Zone' please make a left turn at the next intersection or turn around. Your engine will be shut down if you don't comply."

Or "Mr. FReeper you have listened to conservative radio for one hour we will be switching the station to 'Air America' or the nearest Public Radio Station in two min."

50 posted on 02/21/2009 5:06:56 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Woodman

If the proposal is anything like Massachusetts’, they will be placing a GPS system in every car. So they will know your whereabouts every hour of every day; they will be able to give tickets based upon mathematical calculations....


51 posted on 02/21/2009 5:09:34 AM PST by Billg64 (LOL ROFL Senator Mccain for what????)
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To: Mercedes718

more than socialism; fascism


52 posted on 02/21/2009 5:11:33 AM PST by Billg64 (LOL ROFL Senator Mccain for what????)
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To: Library Lady

lol..both...no im kidding... i call him my husband because we are technically common law, but engaged, and being slightly aloof i mix it up...so fiance, but common law marriage. It confuses me all the time


53 posted on 02/21/2009 5:12:06 AM PST by Mercedes718 (Id rather be a conservative nutjob then a liberal with NO NUTS and NO JOB..)
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To: Kackikat
Since I drive 80 miles a day, round trip, to work, that .0025 cents a mile is going to start adding up. I know, it's only $1.00 a week. However, why should I give those effing commie thieves one extra cent, so they can piddle it away on buying more votes, creating more social control programs, extra layers of non responsive, arrogant, and way far from color-blind government? Tell me a guillotine as a reminder doesn't sound better and better.

Remind me again why we aren't supposed to start shooting. The veneer preventing it keeps getting thinner and thinner. Those greedy...

54 posted on 02/21/2009 5:16:16 AM PST by jonascord (Hurray! for the Bonny Blue Flag that bears the Single Star!)
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To: Kackikat

It is becoming obvious there will be a war between socialists and Capitalists. The socialists will not let the capitalists be. They are pushing too hard.


55 posted on 02/21/2009 5:18:51 AM PST by screaminsunshine (f)
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To: Woodman

“So what happens if I disconnect my speedometer cable say 11 months a year? I bet it would be a new felony offense. “

They will be putting a GPS installed in your Vehicle. They will know how many miles you drive and exactly where you go.


56 posted on 02/21/2009 5:18:51 AM PST by tcat
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To: Woodman
I Guarantee you that someone would figure out either how to spoof the signal, or leave the GPS at home while driving.

What if the tax is collected at the pump and your spoofed GPS unit shows you haven't driven enough to need more gas and the pump is configured to deny you gas unless your GPS unit says you need it.

Think that is unlikely? This is the Obama administration.

57 posted on 02/21/2009 5:20:27 AM PST by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: Kackikat; All
Obama's already hauled in this trial balloon really fast after the initial reaction to it...

Obama nixes plan to tax motorists on mileage

58 posted on 02/21/2009 5:21:05 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: wgflyer

The “natives” out here are getting restless. I can hear the drums.


59 posted on 02/21/2009 5:21:10 AM PST by screaminsunshine (f)
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To: angkor; Kackikat
Kack's point was about calling good evil and evil good and is entirely correct in linking it to the type of speech to expect in the last days.

Isaiah 5:20 - "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. "

Matthew Henry's commentary on this verse says:


60 posted on 02/21/2009 5:21:12 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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