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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.

My point is that the technology, in a shirt pocket sized box, already exists. The rest, the entire rest, is just logistics. And, I am very willing to wager that somewhere on DU, parking his pimply cottage-cheesy ass on his mother's old couch in the basement, is the future Adolf Eichmann.

Eichmann, (who today would be a center of the road Democrat, working as sales support staff for Exxon, and takes a job with the Feds in HHS), was a clerk. Recall that all he did was make sure 9,000,000 units got on the correct trains, that the trains were maintained, that they arrived when and where.... That was with paper, pencil, filing cabinets. Think of what he could have done with a single laptop and Excel.

9,000,000 units, or logs, or untermench, sorted out, teased away, shipped out, from the entire population of Europe, for processing. And they all trooped, naked, into the sealed rooms, convinced that it wouldn't, couldn't happen.

Just remember, next time you start thinking, "it can't, it won't...", It has happened, it will happen, again. Your's and my handles on reality, the can and can't, is heavily greased, and there are people who desperately want to take the whole belief construct away from you.

Screw it, I'm gonna get some more .308 Winchester ammo.