[rktman]

Rethink those weekend joyrides? How about re-thinking putting this assclown back in office. Just because the local govts mismanage the gas taxes isn't a reason to try to gain control over the traveling public.

[lula]

Ridiculous! The folks who drive the most already pay the most tax because they use the most gas. Putting a tax on mileage is only a way to double tax us. They will keep the gas tax too, bank on it.

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[DungeonMaster]

New orders from the mono-party.

[Salvavida]

How about all federal and state inmates in the prisons keep up the maintenance of all highways, thereby reducing the cost?

They get shot on sight attempting escape.

[richardtavor]

It is a tax on rural folks to force them back into the cities...

[onona]

Any “republican” that ever suggests any new or raised tax should be run out of town on a rail.

[Robert DeLong]

Not going to happen as there are still too many cars that do not have GPS tracking capabilities. Besides that, it is much easier to collect the taxes at the point of sale. If bills are sent out then it adds extra costs and may result in some not paying in a timely manner.

Some who drive less than others are still paying less in taxes because they use less gas. It's a dumb idea that has been bantered around for years now.

[lightman]

Great idea!

Why should “Electric Vehicles” get a free ride?

And why should “Hybrids” get a partially free ride?

[Architect of Avalon]

This is the stupidest proposal made by any elected official so far today.

[Wuli]

He might register as a Republican but he is not, in principle, a Republican. What’s is the government going to to - track the mileage of every vehicle? Only something that would be a Liberty violating intrusion would hand over to the government the changes in your vehicles mileage.

Less intrusive is the understanding that (a) fuel taxes are a user fee for using the roads, and (2) the public roads that are not private and not toll roads need public funding and the least intrusive means are fuel taxes, and (3) as vehicles’ average miles per gallon keep improving, you may traverse the roads for as many miles as before, but the net user fee collected per mile is less, therefore, we only need to peg fuel taxes to the average miles per gallon, adjusting it as the average miles per gallon improves; which, without any other formal fuel tax increase, will simply raise the same revenue per average mile driven as before.

Republicans ought to understand that an adjustable fuel tax rate based on changes to the average miles per gallon, is (a) extremely less intrusive than the big brother means of tracking everyone’s vehicle mileage, and (b) is not intended or designed to increase what someone is paying in fuel taxes, just match current revenue collected to any improvement in the average miles per gallon.

It could be implemented in no less than 6 year increments.

For example:

If in six years the average miles per gallon has increased from 23.6 to 22.4 (2011 to 2017) that would mean a 1.2 mile per gallon improvement. That would mean on the same gallon of gas, cars and light trucks drove on average 1.2 miles further, but paid the same fuel taxes as when they drove 1.2 miles less per gallon.

The miles per gallon improvement was 5.35714285714286% yet, with no change in the fuel tax/user fee, less revenue per average mile per gallon was actually collected. If the fuel tax was raised by the same % as the % improvement in the average miles per gallon, it would in fact be essentially revenue neutral compared to what had been collected before.

I see nothing “anti-conservative” about it, and much prefer it to the politics that either refuses to admit we are collecting less user-fee-fuel-taxes per average mile per gallon, when average mile gallon is improving, or the politics that just wants to raise fuel taxes for the sake of raising a tax, or the big brother gambits of knowing the changes in our vehicles miles driven over any period of time.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

No problem. Then I want gas tax free for all my lawn mowers and yard equipment and atv,etc. Right now I pay road tax at the pump for these off road vehicles and equipment.

[Lean-Right]

A bar code on your car, and a scanner
on the pump. Gonna have to scan before
the pump will dispense. The car’s
computer will show mileage on your
receipt, and recorded on the pump.
And you’ll get a monthly tax bill
in the mail.
I don’t know how they would record
mileage in a car without a computer.
This is my best guess as to how they
are going to be able to track you,
where ever you go.