I'd have any such device in my vehicle disabled right quick.
Posted on 01/17/2013 5:33:48 AM PST by Kaslin
who can’t do the stairs due to wheel chairs. I know. have folks to carry them to the top.
But, the disabled could be taxed on how many times their wheels on their wheelchair turned. Hey, they have to pay their fair share too./s
couldve sworn bambam said that anybody making less than 25K would never see a tax increase ???
his *opponents* are chompin at the bit for more slushies too...
“Isn’t that what Obama wanted? For people to use more “green” energy?”
I think what he really wants is for people to move in closer to urban centers—that will make it easier for him to round up the people and use them to work for the government in “camps”. Think China
I'd have any such device in my vehicle disabled right quick.
Supermarket is 2 blocks away. Gas station is 4 blocks away. Water Plant I work at is 6 blocks away. My 2001 Highlander has 50,000 miles on it. They’ll probably tax me for not driving enough!
I knew it was you before I even finished reading that line.
“Don’t pay any attention to what they say, watch what they do.”
I say pay very close attention to what they say and then assume that they will do the opposit of what they are stating are their objectives!
Agenda 21?
They make cars more gas efficient, people buy the cars, then get taxed for driving them. Brilliant!
Same here. I drive from job site to job site. most of my jobs are 15 minutes or less. So the bulk of my day is seat time in my own car. 4 years ago I traveled in a full size van with all the tools I needed. As pay went down, costs went up I was forced to park the van and start driving a 30 MPG car with just enough tools. I spend 15-20 minutes every morning going over the days jobs and loading the needed tools in the car.
Start taxing me by the mile to pay for some starbucks sipping liberal loosers bus? I’ll quit if I can’t raise my rates to cover it.
This is what we get with our KNEE-JERK reaction to increasing the gas tax...and not even letting it keep up with inflation.
I sure hope all you people are happy now - YOU’RE GETTING WHAT YOU DESERVE
If this involves a GPS unit in the vehicle, it will DESTROY the privacy of travel. We can be assured by “strong laws” but government always gives itself a pass somehow. The only way to protect the privacy of travel is to never allow government the means to violate our privacy in the first place.
This isn’t the 70’s, your privacy of travel has been long gone.
In every major city today there is at least one patrol car with high res cameras recording (and logging) every license plate of every car on the road, both coming and going.
Facial recognition software has been merged with all the drivers license photos, guess who deploys it and on whose orders.
There is also automatic pollution monitoring equipment that can analyze your exhaust and record the reading along with your license tag.
Use your credit card to buy gas, tracked.
Toll roads are now handled with transponders issued to the vehicle owner, they track when and how often the vehicle passes the receiver.
If your car (more than 1/2 the new cars sold in the last 2 years ) has GPS capability, addition of a $25 transponder turns it into a mileage tracking and auto recording system.
I am not kiddin, this stuff is out there now, and it is where we are heading.
This mileage tax will serve one purpose. Another opportunity for busybody bureaucrats to intrude in our everyday lives and more red tape. The current model of the gas tax based on per gallon is easy. Gas station sells a gallon, taxes are paid. And the driver just pays the tax at the pump and he is done. No paperwork, no reporting requirements, just drive.
One thing, this is done with truckers already with the fuel tax. And truckers are burdened with a lot of rules and regulations. The CDL which is intrusive enough where even a parking ticket can affect your driving privileges. And then there is the paperwork that has to be done for each state traveled through like for fuel taxes. Even if you fill up in State A with very little taxes but then drive mostly in State B, you will have to pay fuel taxes to State B for the portion driven there.
Kind of funny, back in the late 1980’s, I live in far Southern Indiana and Kentucky had very cheap gasoline taxes compared to Indiana and I would drive to the Kentucky side to fill up. It was like 20 cents difference at the time.
Oh, they're quite sane... just diabolical. States like Virginia that thrive on out-of-state tourists will suffer greatly, while democrat-run, urban, rotting hellholes will all benefit from it.
FUBO!
something I heard Beck mention one day when I was channel surfing. One of Bh0’s buddies has published a book about the need to force people back into central cities. One way will be to pass state laws and or to get big cities to annex more and more suburbs, and then raise taxes on those folks, so it is cheaper to move into empty apartment buildings in the cities. And it is also justified as a “Green” initiative.
What Obama has in mind is mandating all vehicles be equipped with GPS and sensors so that a tax can be leveled not only on miles driven, but also speed and the type of vehicle with “gas guzzlers” being taxed more. As an added bonus Big Brother would also be able to track our every movement in case we might go to some clandestine gun show or TEA party meeting.
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