States Mull Taxing Drivers By Mile

CBS | February 14, 2005 | [none cited]

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Please remove dupe post, thanks! Didn't seem to post 1st time.

[lews]

Will the gasoline tax be eliminated when the "per mile" tax is added?

[hosepipe]

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

[Phantom Lord]

Translation: SUVs are evil. Gas guzzlers are evil. You must drive fuel efficeint vehicles to save not only America but the planet. But don't dare pay a penny less in taxes by doing so!

[Phantom Lord]

Will the gasoline tax be eliminated when the "per mile" tax is added?

I hope you know the answer.

[Publius Scipio]

One of the worst ideas since the Stamp Act.

[Thebaddog]

Then perhaps the taxing bodies should tax smokers with a replacement tax as they quit smoking.

[Still Thinking]

But tax-by-mile advocates say it may be the only way to ensure that fuel efficiency doesn't prevent smooth sailing down the road.

That's simply not true. If someone's beef is that the newer cars are more fuel effient, therefore causing more were and tear on the roads per gallon of fuel (though the cars are fuel efficient partly because they are light, thus wearing the roads less per mile), that can be fixed by adjusting the AMOUNT of the per gallon tax. There's no reason to jump all the way to some new technology they could use (and therefore would eventually use) to invade our privacy.

Also, the per mile method "favors the rich" as SUV miles would presumably be taxed the same as Greenie-mobile miles, despite having a differing effect on the roadbed (so liberals aren't supposed to like it).

[Still Thinking]

AND we get to keep tabs on where you drive!

[oceanview]

it will never pass. there will be such a huge market for cars with disconnected odometers, it will be chaos.

[Publius Scipio]

I'm sure Blob Reiner is already working on that.

[NRA2BFree]

Privacy advocates say it's more like big brother riding on your bumper, not to mention a disincentive to buy fuel-efficient cars.

It's more like big brother's riding in our pocket.

[Still Thinking]

There's something in my pocket for Big Brother! ;-)

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Cigarettes are evil but we won't outlaw them because we love to tax YOU to death (if the smoke doesn't get you the taxes will).

[Ditto]

Will the gasoline tax be eliminated when the "per mile" tax is added?

ROTFLMAO. I'm sure you meant that sarcastically.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

"So, if you drive 10 miles you will pay a certain fee which will be, let's say, one tenth of what someone pays if they drive 100 miles," says Kim.

And then they go and try to confuse us poor tax-paying schmoes with complex mathematical formulae!

Oh, by the way -- to h-ll with this plan for many, many reasons.

[unixfox]

And it will cost how much to implement, oversee, gas police, et al...?

[PetroniDE]

Translation: SUVs are evil. Gas guzzlers are evil. You must drive fuel efficeint vehicles to save not only America but the planet. But don't dare pay a penny less in taxes by doing so!

FUEL-EFFICIENT CARS ARE EVIL ..... . If you live close to another state, fill up in that state (you may need some auxiliary tanks).

[mowowie]

When will they implement the Oxygen tax?