Posted on 12/04/2013 9:38:08 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
How about stop spending Highway funds on trolleys, trains and bicycle paths?
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/04/24/time-to-rethink-federal-highway-trust-fund-spending/
Only up until the time that I locate it and disable it.
That will only trigger an immediate IRS audit.
Yes—that, too.
And they try to say that the high price of oil is due to those greedy oil men who are trying to get rich.
You got a small business 4 or 5 trucks on the road barely making it in this crappy economy and they double the road tax and you’re serving a rural area with much travel involved, what could go wrong? Death to small businesses by a thousand cuts.
Waiting on the carbon dioxide tax on our exhalations, if that is a word. Since they don’t dedicate the road tax to strictly roads name should be changed to slush fund tax. Just poking the caged bear with a sharp stick once more.
Okay, so what we now need is a “personal” unit that reads the mileage and resets the counter in the auto-based unit.
This is talking about replacing the federal tax, not the additional state tax.
And heavier/older vehicles that get poor gas mileage pay more. It’s fair, and Dems just can’t have that.
Not to mention making it more expensive to live in rural areas, pushing more folks to the cities.
This is the little weasel that wears that bicylcle pin all the time & creepy bowties. He wants to get rid of all cars, believes we should all ride bikes & high speed rail.
Reminds me PeeWee Herman :)
Agenda 21.
He’s talking about an increase in the gas tax right now - but - hr’s also talking about instituting a tax that is directly linked to “miles driven”.
That would turn the entire United States into a turnpike system (even though it wouldn’t be billed through toll booths).
Yes and no.
The issue is that a Chevy Suburban will pay a higher per mile rate than a Prius will. With the rise of high MPG vehicles, a lot less money is now flowing into the various highway spending buckets funded from fast taxes.
A VMT is a flat tax where everyone pays the same per mile rate. I kinda support the idea, under the scenario where it’s a direct replacement for, not a supplement to, the gas tax. And the monitoring isn’t done on a real-time (black box in the car) basis.
Well ... pretty soon your car will be driving itself ... :-) ...
Right. Drive the serfs into the cities where they are easier to control.
Well ... I’m sure that will be illegal just like disabling air bags and removing seat belts are illegal. There will probably be a signal that it transmits (to readers placed around the city) which will let the authorities know that it’s disconnected - at which point they’ll snap a picture (just like the red light cameras or also when people drive through toll booths without paying) and send the owner of the car a ticket and fine for doing so.
They don't even pretend that it is a way of more fairly distrubuting the tax burden so that electric car owners will pay their share of the road. It is primarily for boosting revenue.
Also in 2011, the Department of Transportation wrote a legislative proposal for a VMT system. That bill called for the creation of a public affairs office to help sell the idea to American drivers — it said the office would "increase public awareness regarding the need for an alternative funding source for surface transportation programs and provide information on possible approaches."
The Department of Transportation's own propaganda office. Nice! < /s>
If they had a way of doing it without GPS tracking, such as a check on mileage by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles when you register your car annually, I wouldn't have a real problem with a mileage tax as a dollar for dollar substitute for the gasoline tax. It would be nice to hit a Volt driver... with the tax. But they see this as a method of raising the tax and having a black box permanently track your driving. The next step would be turning every road into a toll road with different fees to control when you are allowed to drive.
Purify the gasoline tax (remove funding from every bike path, bus and urban rail from it), return the taxing authority and road building responsibility to the states so that Hawaiians don't pay for Boston's Big Dig and Floridians don't pay for Alaska's bridge to nowhere. Then we can talk about whether a non-GPS mileage tax or a gasoline tax is the best way to pay for those roads.
Which I will refuse to pay.
That's the Obamacare tax. You must have it as a condition of... of... existing. And it's a tax. So says the Court.
LOL ... oil up that bicycle then ... the authorities will have the tow truck drivers on speed dial ... :-) ...
The more draconian version of this ... forget the tow truck drivers, but you better have your bail bondsman on speed dial.
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