Mileage-based tax proposed[NC][Levy on car's odometer]

Charlotte Observer ^ | 11 Dec 2008 | Mark Johnson

[nclaurel]

Should I refer to NC as the “Massachussetts of the South”?
Yes. With Mike "tax hike" Easley, now Hagan and Perdue, we will no longer have take home pay. Our entire wage will just be handed over to build things like Easley's $% million walk bridge over the Raleigh beltline that no one uses. We already have about the highest gas tax in the nation. Since I 95 is the route many from the north take to get to Florida, they could at least do something that affected those trucks etc that use that route to help pay the upkeep of at least that route.

[MitchellC]

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[B4Ranch]

This is simply Agenda 21 creeping closer.

[TaxRelief]

Disconnect the speedo cable 11 months out of the year ...”

They don’t use speedometer cables anymore. You have to hack the computer.

Hmmm... I don't think I want to buy a used car in NC.

[STONEWALLS]

“would supplement or replace the gas tax...”
...no, they’d just employ it as yet another tax...other existing taxes would stay the same.

“The group also proposed toll booths on I-77 and I-95.”
...remember when Virginia did just that?....they had toll booths on I-95 thru Richmond....it was supposed to be a temporary measure until the road was paid for....but the Turnpike Authority grew larger and more powerful over the years and wouldn’t voluntarily shut down....finally people got so mad they had to have a law to get rid of that bureaucracy....take heed N.C.....once a state agency gets entrenched, it’s hell to get rid of.

[Moose4]

Then your car won’t pass the mandatory yearly state safety and emissions inspection. Without that, it can’t be registered.

They recently changed the law here; now the state inspection and the DMV registration process are integrated. No more window stickers for inspections, it’s all electronic. If your car hasn’t passed inspection, you can’t renew your registration. No more registering it and then having 10 days to get it inspected and get the window sticker. This means that the DMV will now have your odometer setting every year, because it’s recorded as part of the inspection process.

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