Wacky California Considers by-the-Mile Driving Tax

NewsMax ^ | november 16, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

[hedgetrimmer]

A global tracking system device on your automobile will allow government snoops to monitor you wherever you drive – which may be the underlying goal of this entire plan anyway.

This all fits in with the current Stalinist push to herd people into high density housing on rail lines(smart growth), control freedom of mobility with traffic calming and toll roads(only counties implmenting smart growth policies will get transporation funds), and control private lands through conservancies (Sierra Nevada conservancy, Gaviota, viewsheds and scenic roadway easements.

California better wake up pretty quick!

[Bella_Bru]

her scheme would require each car be fitted with a mileage tracking device that beamed a signal to a GPS satellite.

Because big brother ain't quite big enough.

[faithincowboys]

It should migrate to all the states where the Representatives are kooky, anti-american, anti-nat'l security liberals. The people of those states need to experience the consequences of their votes.

[bigfootbob]

So has Washington!

[bigfootbob]

Then you'd better get used to it, Florida hasn't been the benchmark of conservatism lately.

[Betis70]

Wee! More taxes.

This state stinks.

[Carry_Okie]

Of course, in order to bill this tax the State will have to know where you are at all times.

[faithincowboys]

Hey we just sent a Conservative to the Senate. And we have a conservative Governor and a conservative state legislature. We also gave W 27 much needed electoral votes. Much more than CA managed to do. I am willing to be taxed half as much as you are-- since I have only one POS Leftwing Senator.

[w1andsodidwe]

I guess I will have to use the company exclusively and leave my car in the garage. Tying this to the car is ridiculous.

If my car gets stolen, then I get taxed for the miles driven by the thieves. Yeah, that makes sense.

[Gritty]

So, if I drive my Yugo from San Francisco to NY to visit my ailiing mother, I get to pay Kalifornia tax and all the other taxes in between - not just the Kalifonia mileage one, right.

Isn't this double taxation?

[BigEdLB]

I think our terminatin' governator has to have a heart-to-heart with this loon, or show her the door, and try again...

If not, and they try to put this in, the terminator may be the next recalled governor,=...

[afnamvet]

Up go the For Sale signs for both business and residential properties. Arnold and the idiots in the legislature better realize that business is already leaving the state in massive numbers with no plans to return.

[Right Cal Gal]

No kidding. The only good thing is that we know all Democratic legislators will vote for it and Republicans against....maybe FINALLY we can throw it in their faces next election and get a Senate and Assembly that will really do something.

Of course, maybe monkeys will really fly out of my butt, too.....

[claudiustg]

---Hence, for years California residents have been penalized for wanting to drive any vehicle larger than a beer can with a motor.---

This is not correct. There never has been a special penalty for driving a large vehicle in California.

[stompk]

My GPS doesnt work in my garage. therefore it will have to be acceptable for GPSs to be out of contact.

i'd think a big roll of tin foil could cut down on your
reported mileage. . . .
( and, no, not for my hat ! )

[Wolfstar]

So, my fellow Californians, tell me again why the recall was a good idea? We have a nominally Republican governor appointing far-Left wackos to patronage jobs. Meanwhile, our Marxist -- er, Democrat -- legislature is totally off the hook for their terrible policies because they can hide behind Arnold. As for Arnold, he's busy trying to change our national Constitution to further his own (and his Kennedy wife's) ambitions.

[WildTurkey]

It's a common misconception that GPS satellites can track anyone - all they do is broadcast their position, and your GPS device figures out where it is by the angle of the satellites. The GPS device doesn't tell the satellites anything, though, any more than your car radio reports back to the radio station.

REAL TIME TRACKING!

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Leaving the state tax.

(snicker)

Thats next...if it is not already done locally.

Go to this link and read under real estate sales. This happened to me in Evergreen Park Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) If you leave the village, you pay a tax to the village when selling your home. This tax is $5 for every $1000 of the asking price.

[claudiustg]

This whole article seems to be a crock. There's enough wrong with California without making stuff up. Nobody has been coerced into buying hybrids and you can't broadcast signals to a GPS satellite.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

So, my fellow Californians, tell me again why the recall was a good idea?

Because McKlintock was too conservative. Everbody knows that! Plus, who would given the "economic girly man" speach at the convention? /sarcasm