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I got a Tom Tom GPS for Christmas. It cost $100. It's a little spooky. I wonder if it is recording all my trips for posterity, as well as telling me how fast I am going, every second, every store and shop and gas station I am passing, every destination I've asked for and been to, and the route I took.

A GPS tells you WAY MORE than a simple odometer. AND, it wants you to hook it to the Net, every week or so, for updates. If the National Socialist Democrat American Workers Party simply mandates a flash drive, it will record your every movement, addresses paused at, and for how long, and download it to your Permenant Record. Do you actually think this is about a simple tax per mile thing?

It's just for your own safety, like those SS thugs in Oklahoma City who demanded, (and were allowed), to search the "Abort Obama" bumper sticker owner's house, to make sure there was no evidence of "hate groups."

Just because 99.9% of the Federal Monster is a useless waste of protein, oxygen, oil, real estate, doesn't mean they can't actually have a Blind Squirrel program.

Yes I also have a TomTom (paid $350 for it in Dec 2006) and know what it can do.

But you say:

"If the National Socialist Democrat American Workers Party simply mandates a flash drive, it will record your every movement, addresses paused at, and for how long, and download it to your Permenant Record. Do you actually think this is about a simple tax per mile thing?"

As I have been saying to all of the other hysterical half-considered and paranoid scenarios presented in this thread, think it through.

Just because you and I can easily "download" our own personal GPS travel data on an individual basis, does not translate to "the government" tracking, collecting, transferring, storing, analyzing, and maintaining that same data for the estimated 250,851,833 **passenger** vehicles in the United States (that figure doesn't include commercial vehicles).

You and the other folks on this thread need to get out of you own heads and think of how this would really and actually in reality be implemented for 250 million vehicles per year, every year, and how long it would actually in reality take to build such a system and how much in the real world it would actually cost and where is the manpower and planning to do it.

And this is not even yet to consider the very serious and very in-your-pockets invasion of personal liberties that such a program engenders.