Posted on 03/25/2011 7:10:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
EVERY MILE YOU TAKE, EVERY TIME YOU BREAK, THEY'LL BE WATCHING YOU...
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Oh yeah, taxing the already stretched American taxpayer on mileage, coupled with high and rising fuel cost should go over well.
Why bother with incrementalism, the Dems should just cut to the chase and explain that they want to control every dollar you earn to fund their socialist utopia...
There is NO need to increase tax revenues, there IS a need to cut spending. No one up there seems to have the balls to get it done.
Obviously, the bloated, ugly government monster in D.C. is running out of blood to suck.
Our great grandchildren will probably be fitted with a meter at birth that will register how many breaths they take, and they will pay a Carbon-Emissions Tax on each one.
If they die too young, their families will have to pay a “Failure to Emit Carbon Tax.” The Beast must control and tax every last action of our lives even after death.
They already have a tax based on mileage - the fuel tax.
Now they want to spend billions getting devices installed in cars to get the same effect? What demonrats own the businesses that will get the money?
We’re already paying a tax for that. It’s called the Federal Gasoline Tax.
I will not comply.
EVERY MILE YOU TAKE, EVERY TIME YOU BREAK, THEY'LL BE WATCHING TAXING YOU...
This calls for a Cloward-Piven strategy: massive civil disobedience that will overwhelm the monitoring and enforcement infrastructure. Don’t install the devices. Disable the ones that are installed. If you’re billed, refuse to pay. The sheer weight of the resistance will collapse the system. It will cost far more to implement and enforce than it will ever generate.
Too intrusive ! I feel sorry for the truck drivers on all the intrusive rules and regulations they have to put up with ! The CDL laws where every little ticket even to a parking ticket goes against your license and the CDL rules also apply when driving your private vehicle ! And this would be one of many steps to apply these same rules to non-commercial drivers !
Guys, guys. It’s ‘Brake’ not Break.
Then they will imprison you or kill you. I’m not trying to dash your hopes, but the reality is that it’s easy to talk tough on an internet message board. Putting that talk into action is another thing entirely.
Once a year, at tax time, they can calculate how much allowance we should get and send it to us.
Too bad for us if we can't make do on it.
if America hated the 55 MPH speed limit, they are REALLY gonna loathe THIS one!
Very good for our side if they’re stupid enough to actually try it.
Dang it. You just broak my spirit and self esteem.
Break or brake?
Taxes discourage behavior. Think of this tax as a form of social engineering.
“Conrad points to a new CBO study saying that taxing Americans on their car mileage will provide a windfall for the federal government”
As if that is a good thing. Money diverted from the productive private economy to the destructive government sector is detrimental to the the good of the country.
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