Pawlenty wants Minnesota to test mileage tax

MPR ^ | 3-18-09 | tim nelson

[WOBBLY BOB]

Live Free or Move [Job growth is 216% higher in states with lower taxes and less regulation]

http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110008350

In 2005, per capita personal income grew 31% faster in the 15 most economically free states than it did in the 15 states at the bottom of the list. And employment growth was a staggering 216% higher in the most free states.

....”Laboratories of Democracy” .

I’m ready to leave,too

[elpadre]

this year or next - ya think??

[antidisestablishment]

(Disclaimer: The following article discusses national figures – Minnesota figures would in all probability be much worse.)

That's a great article if you do the math.

$40.3B collected:

• $11.5B wasted in administrative costs (29.2%)
• $8.9B outright stolen for "unrelated' uses (22%)
• $6.7B (16.8%) appropriated for supposed "[transportation] related use"
• $13B for actual transportation costs (32%).

After all that, if we generously allow real and "related" use, 48.8% of the tax money actually goes toward transportation. 51.2% of tax revenue was wasted or stolen!

Does anyone still think that giving them another tax scheme will help?

[WorkingClassFilth]

I object on the basis that roads are open to all and have been paid for by all. Further, government is in this funding pickle because they have over spent and grown beyond their legal bounds. To make me pay extra for something I have already paid for and to penalize me for living where I want is absurd and larcenous. Besides, once we get down to parsing who should pay more based on use of a publically funded and Constitutionally mandated item, why not figure out who contributes more to society through work performed in relation to those miles traveled? Surely some drivers are far inexcess net benefits to society for there travel than others . . . you see the problem? Better to just do what government is supposed to do and let the nanny state funding go dry (with all those problems) than to feed the beast and let it get larger via patently ridiculous schemes to justify greater taxation.