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Lazamataz is hanging in the balance!
Posted on 04/28/2011 11:06:54 AM PDT by fella
Could Texas someday track drivers electronically, charge a vehicle-mile-traveled tax instead of a gas tax?
Here's a question for you: Would you rather pay the current state gas tax of 20 cents a gallon (on top of the federal tax of 18.4 cents a gallon) or instead pay a tax based on how much you actually drive?
Read more: http://blogs.star-telegram.com/honkin_mad/2011/04/could-texas-someday-track-drivers-electronically-charge-a-vehicle-mile-traveled-tax-instead-of-a-gas.html#ixzz1KqFdDAYC
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That’s a good idea. We’ll call it a “Prius Tax”.
This NOT about revenue. It IS about more control, tracking, watching.
Already, IF you drive more miles, you use more gas, you pay more tax. So, what is the differemce?
I am just guessing here but isn’t how much gas I buy pretty much related to far I drive?
Don’t even THINK of it!!!
I don’t live in Texas but the idea of paying per mile to drive on crappy New Mexico dirt roads would probably push me over the edge.
This is absolutely correct. I argue this every time this comes up. As you say, a gas tax is a mileage tax. If you don't drive, you don't need the gas, you don't pay the tax. The gov't prefers an explicit mileage tax because it includes the necessity of tracking and, thus, gives the opportunity for further control. The gas tax is too anonymous to satisfy their tyranical proclivities.
If the sheeple accept the idea of “instead of a per gallon tax” then they better be prepared for “in addition to a per gallon tax”.
Don’t be fooled.
Texas in a Nanny State.
It will never fly. It would shift the burden too heavily on rural Texans. Having lived in the stix for a decade, I can say that miles on a car is already a hidden tax on ruralites. Not only do you consume more fuel, but you go through cars much more quickly.
The more you drive, the more gas you have to pay for, so it's essentially the very same thing, except for how the tax is collected.
As if gasoline tax is going to go away anyway.
It is about MORE control.
Taxes are about control as well. Taxing AND tracking is more control.
We already pay gas taxes based on how far we drive. If you drive more, you pay more gas taxes. No point to this unless everyone starts driving electric cars, because other than offering an opportunity to spy on everyone and quietly double the tax rate, it wouldn’t make much difference.
>Cut federal, state, county and municipal governments by fifty percent.
>Kick out the illegal aliens.
>Put a tariff on foreign goods and provide tax incentives for manufacturers who bring jobs back to Texas / America.
>Go up to D.C., each state house, each city and or county seats and pull all the crooked politicians out by the nap of their necks, kick’em in the @$$ and tell’em to hit the road and don't come back.
Speaking of which, it's time for me to go to work in my gas guzzler (only 28 mpg) along Texas farm to market roads (42 miles one way) to work in one of the last factories in the U.S. so I can earn the money to pay for this computer and it's DSL service
I don't think so Mr. Pierce.
Every car on the road already has a mileage tracking device.
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