Posted on 07/01/2009 6:40:29 AM PDT by wrhssaxensemble
The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history. In its place you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove — tracked by a Global Positioning System device in your car and uploaded to a billing center. What once was science fiction is being field-tested by the University of Iowa to iron out the wrinkles should a by-the-mile road tax ever be enacted. Besides the technological advances making such a tax possible, the idea is getting a hard push from a growing number of transportation experts and officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
>>> Whatdya wanna bet we end up with ‘em both?
Not to mention the triple dipping for turnpikes and bridges!
“Shhhh.... buzzards!” (punch line of a joke)
EAGLE EYE Here we come!
Oh... and lets not forget that not too long ago we were called kooks for our outlandish predictions on what this new technology would be used for.
The GOP needs a wake up call, and needs to get it’s act together, true. But the entire electorate needs a wake up call and throw the bums in both parties out.
It’s not that the technology is bad -
it’s the power grabbing elitists that need some slapping around.
The confrontation is coming. They want to control EVERYTHING about us, and we just want to be left alone.
It’s gonna be ugly.
Won't matter WHO was driving, it's your car.
And yes, with GPS they will know where the car went.
The GOP has needed a wakeup call for decades!
That’s a hanging offense in 2020.
one tiny problem...
The GPS satellites, as it has been recently reported, are not expected to last into 2020
The biggest deficiency of taxes on motor fuels — and a deficiency that is likely to grow over time — is that there are more and more vehicles on the road that use non-traditional means of propulsion (electric cars, CNG fleets, etc.) that aren’t subject to these taxes.
Interesting question about the need for GPS. My guess is that the location where a vehicle drives would have to known in order to determine which jurisdiction gets the tax revenue. If I put 15,000 miles per year on my vehicle but drive half those miles out of state, then the state where the vehicle is registered has no authority to collect taxes on the full use.
Yeah, we really taught “the GOP a lesson”!
If you aren't doing anything wrong it shouldn't bother you if someone knows where you are ,what you say, and what you are doing at all times?(There are people who really believe this.)
Constitutional. Such a quaint notion in Obama's Amerika.
It’s not about money. It’s about control.
Sorry to say you need to check how over the road trucks are taxed. The semis that carry America’s goods get taxed by each state.
I understand what you’re saying. I was pointing out the facile and erroneous description in the article that says,
“...you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove.”
This is just not true. It should read, “You get a tax bill based on the total miles travelled by all cars registered to you.”
That’s a big difference.
This needs to be repeated. GPS tracking of your car is not about taxes. It is about the government eventually controlling how fast, when, and where you drive, where you park, and knowing who you associate with. This is the most dangerous threat to freedom that has been proposed in a long time, and must be fought with vigor.
GPS’s are too easy to screw with. Even by 2020 not all vehicles will have them, and they could push add-ons but those would be even easier to mess with (more exposed, less integrated).
Some states have already implimented this in one form or another.
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