Posted on 03/25/2011 4:18:33 PM PDT by stillafreemind
Remember when smokers begged for people to be a little understanding? Remember when smokers warned that there would be a tax that ALL people would have to pay on something they held dear? Well, I think the GPS tax for tracking and taxing every mile you drive just may fit that bill.
This tax, like the cigarette smokers tax, will have devastating consequences on the poor and middle income people. With a tax on every mile we drive, not to mention tracking information on every mile we drive, are we seeing the "hope" and "change" that Obama and the democrats were talking about?
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I would bet there would be many waivers given to override transmission of the data by gadget fix or even crooked government employees. Government insiders and poor people on food stamps and other handouts woould be on waivers if for no other purposes than to keep the votes coming in.
et’s say you buy a gallon of gasoline for $4.00 of which $2.00 is tax. That’s $0.05 per mile in a Prius as opposed to $0.20 per mile in a Suburban.
The gas tax still works. A Prius is MUCH lighter than the suburban and thus would cause much less wear and tare on the road ways. Get back to me on raising the gas tax when all funs from said taxes go back in to the roads the tax was collected for in the first place.
In Minnesota it goes in to a “transportation fund” it’s used for anything remotely close to transportation. Bike paths, HOV lanes, buses.. Once in a while some of it actually goes in to the roads.
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