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House Republican pushing mileage tax to bolster Transportation funds (RINO Alert)
Hot Air ^ | February 6, 2014 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 02/06/2014 7:36:02 AM PST by C19fan

Over the last few years, we’ve seen Democrats raise the idea of adding a new revenue source to supplement the gas tax, as revenues have declined from this stream due to increased fuel efficiency thanks to mandates to that effect imposed by Congress. One bad idea that never seems to die is a mileage tax, which would force Americans to track their travel — or have government do it for them. That idea got shelved along with the Democratic House majority in 2011, but now it’s crept across the aisle (via Instapundit):

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: mileage; privacy; tax; transportation
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To: C19fan
What's the point of paying more for a fuel efficient car if it's going to cost the same to drive anyway?
And why do we need yet another expensive and useless bureaucracy to keep track of the mileage on every car?
This is a huge disincentive to be "green". How come they don't see that?

41 posted on 02/06/2014 8:39:29 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

Remember it was republicans that revised bankruptcy laws (conveniently before the real estate crash) exactly as the credit and bank lobby wrote it. The lobbyists literally handed them the new laws already written.

Just imagine the retrofit pork on this.


42 posted on 02/06/2014 8:41:51 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: subterfuge

Yeah I see our state legislature just approved renaming a stretch of highway after a fallen state trooper. I’m OK with the renaming but I’m not OK with paying lord knows how much to change signs to announce it.

The signs should stay the way they are until there is a legitimate need to replace them, then the name can be changed.


43 posted on 02/06/2014 8:42:08 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Paine in the Neck

“The only reason to be these days is to vote them out in the primaries”

Yes, even though I personally believe we have gone past the ballot box I am still chomping at the bit to vote for Dr. Paul Broun for Chambliss’s senate seat in GA. He will stand shoulder to shoulder with Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Rand Paul.


44 posted on 02/06/2014 8:42:54 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: C19fan
RINO does not adequately describe some of the latest actions of these clods.

I think a more suitable description is Republicanus.

45 posted on 02/06/2014 8:56:28 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: C19fan

more taxes!?
isn’t that what Democrats are for?


46 posted on 02/06/2014 8:56:30 AM PST by faithhopecharity (C?d)
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To: C19fan

Gosh just another way to impact the poor and lower middle class who cannot afford the newest most efficient vehicles. This will do wonders for people who either have to drive long distances for work or bought homes in outlying areas because that was the only way they could afford them.


47 posted on 02/06/2014 9:03:14 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: old gringo

FWIW, I’m really fed up with those humongous trucks making a nightmare out of driving for everyone else. It doesn’t bother me that they pay a lot, not at all.


48 posted on 02/06/2014 9:54:59 AM PST by grania
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To: griswold3

Have to agree. I drove local and over-the-road for a couple years, back when diesel fuel was much cheaper than regular gas. Now, diesel is much more than regular. Why is that? Seems the process would have gotten much more efficient over the years such that diesel would still be much cheaper. But no, they are raping the truckers on fuel costs as well, plus state road taxes for each state their tire touches, and on and on.


49 posted on 02/06/2014 10:05:56 AM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: SgtHooper

When diesel had to go to ultra low sulfur (EPA regs) that boosted it quite bit.

But don’t worry, because in 2017 GASOLINE is going to ultra low sulfur and the price will reflect that.


50 posted on 02/06/2014 10:08:19 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: grania

Do you really think those increased costs stay with the truck? Seriously?


51 posted on 02/06/2014 10:09:22 AM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: C19fan

He’d be taken to the woodshed in Texas where a milk run can be a 60 mile round trip.


52 posted on 02/06/2014 10:23:43 AM PST by bgill
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To: Oldexpat

One in eight people in America are here illegally. We woudlnt’ need new roads and wear would be greatly reduced if they’d kick out illegals. And stop welcoming in terrorists.


53 posted on 02/06/2014 10:27:58 AM PST by bgill
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To: SgtHooper
Do you really think those increased costs stay with the truck?

Of course not. Increasing the cost of cheap globalist crap makes it more competitive for manufacturing and food production to be more local, that's a good thing. I wonder what percentage of the goods in those humongous trucks that have taken over the interstates is from China and other third world cesspools.

54 posted on 02/06/2014 10:40:45 AM PST by grania
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To: cripplecreek

Bump to your post cripple.

But it does bring up another intresting point.

Why does the federal government need to free up money in the first place?
Their whole role in this is wrong.

Think for one moment and ask yourself if you go through your day to day life without encountering one government regulatory agency or mandate.

A scary thought.


55 posted on 02/06/2014 10:56:35 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

In my opinion transportation funds should be strictly confined to paying for interstate highways and bridges and possibly ports.

The bigger problem is in the way taxes are levied and how the federal government uses them as a club by withholding our own money.


56 posted on 02/06/2014 11:09:33 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Cyber Liberty; Oldexpat
I put your words up in nice bold type in case anybody missed it.

I damn sure didn't miss it. I was just scrolling down to make sure someone had responded before I did. Unbelievable!

57 posted on 02/06/2014 11:20:08 AM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: grania
FWIW, I’m really fed up with those humongous trucks making a nightmare out of driving for everyone else.

Well hell, let's just ban the damn things then! How do you think that would work out? Good grief.

58 posted on 02/06/2014 11:28:32 AM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: C19fan

Does somebody driving an 03 car need to worry about this? At what year did cars become trackable, if they did?


59 posted on 02/06/2014 11:29:11 AM PST by varmintman
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To: houeto

I find it useful to click “View Replies” under the offending post to see if anybody answered. It’s easier than scrolling down.

Wants higher gas taxes, indeed!


60 posted on 02/06/2014 11:33:51 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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