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- inboxnews, on 02/20/2009, -4/+66Just say NO!
- cowboyhoops33, on 02/20/2009, -4/+53Are you serious?! Do we not already pay for the right to drive with those damn DMV fees? I want to tax them for every wasted minute I have to waste standing in line to pay those in the first place.
- crispy, on 02/20/2009, -2/+44Riddle me this: he doesn't want to raise gas taxes in this recession, so his solution is to force every driver to install a gov't GPS unit in each vehicle and pay a mileage tax.
I'll have what he's smoking, please! - inactive, on 02/20/2009, -3/+41This is a consequence of more fuel efficient cars. Now that more cars get better gas milage the government isn't making as much money on gas taxes.
When the government wants to reduce any usage of something taxed you better look out because as soon as that usage lowers the Government will be hurting in the pocket book and will look to raise taxes because they never reduce spending.
I also see this as a way for the Government to gain more control where you live, now the average commuter is going to increase their cost of living and more people will be force to live closer into the cities where the jobs are. - vuke69, on 02/21/2009, -1/+22HAHAHAHA the government stop a tax!?!?
You should seek immediate medical attention; you must have bumped your head or something. - inactive, on 02/20/2009, -4/+24This is the biggest load of carp I've ever heard!
As soon as they find that they aren't getting enough of your money into their pockets that way (because you aren't driving enough) they will use BOTH.
Folks, wake up! All government wants is ALL of your money. Because ONLY government knows how to appropriately distribute and spend it. - Chahrlie5, on 02/20/2009, -2/+22Do they plan to drop gas tax?
- Christianptriot, on 02/20/2009, -4/+18Right now everyone who buys gas for a lawn mower pays a highway tax of about 50-cents a gallon. If you put gas into an ATV, you pay that same amount, and yet neither of those vehicles use a highway. Same for boats.
SO, gas would drop by 50 cents gallon, assuming they would drop the gas tax. That would be fine...
EXCEPT that they want to further dig into your privacy to do it by forcing installation - most likely at the vehicle owner's expense - to put a tacking device on every vehicle.
I'll keep paying the highway tax for my lawn mower, if they give us a chance to pick. - skunks, on 02/21/2009, -6/+19This idea is dead. Obama killed it, his Press Secretary announced it is dead, it is dead: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintel ...
Move along, nothing to see here. - idavidtang, on 02/21/2009, -2/+14What next? Tax us on how long we park our cars in public!?
Maybe lawmakers should be taxed on each page of regulation they write up. The Federal Register is big enough already for goodness sake. - Okari, on 02/21/2009, -1/+13Won't be long before we start getting taxed on how much air we breathe.
- avidlinuxuser, on 02/21/2009, -1/+12President Barack Obama on Friday rejected his transportation secretary's suggestion that the administration consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy.
on Friday REJECTED his transporation secretary's suggestion
REJECTED
R.E.J.E.C.T.E.D.
Quit spewing nonsense and read the story. - ErickStevenson, on 02/21/2009, -2/+12Are they going to tax me now every time I ***** and piss?
- vuke69, on 02/21/2009, -0/+10As long as they don't tax masturbation. I'd have to get a second job to pay for that one.
- dusanmal, on 02/21/2009, -1/+10"The system would require all cars and trucks be equipped with global satellite positioning technology, a transponder, a clock and other equipment to record how many miles a vehicle was driven, whether it was driven on highways or secondary roads, and even whether it was driven during peak traffic periods or off-peak hours." - not odometer based...
- Rioracer916, on 02/21/2009, -1/+10California's registration fees are going to triple next year. Nevermind the fact that we have some of the highest vehicle registration fees in the U.S.
At what point is taxing the people accomplishing anything other than hurting the economy, causing people to lose more jobs, and the government to yet again have to deal with a budget deficit due to the loss of wealth generation.
Here's an idea: Cut spending! Treat our hard earned tax money with the care and consideration that all of us do when we're trying to make ends meet. After all, that's your job.
At this point I'm more worried about the government strangling this country to death rather than the domino effect of the global recession. - Chakat, on 02/21/2009, -0/+8A gasoline tax is the easiest, and honestly, the most fair way to tax vehicles. Heavy vehicles cause more wear and tear on the road and use more gasoline, thus pay more in taxes. A per-mile tax means that you end up subsidizing those vehicles which cause a disproportionate amount of wear and tear on the highways.
Additionally, a tax on fuel itself means that handling things like out-of-state drivers becomes a lot easier, because you don't have to manage a huge framework for recording mileage of people as they go in and out of the state. Imagine having to maintain logs of every out of state car, truck, etc that goes through a state on a regular basis. You'd have a nightmare of regulations and standards enforcements. - ShuttleXpC, on 02/21/2009, -0/+7It's not even him suggesting this plan, you complete and utter retard. He has already rejected this plan proposed by his trans sec. So before you make yourself look like a complete ass next time, please research some stuff.
- ChinezePanda, on 02/21/2009, -4/+11Obama killed it.
It is dead.
This will NEVER happen. - FlaG8r, on 02/21/2009, -0/+6LaHood should've checked with the boss before he shot his mouth off
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/02/2 ... - froschkonig, on 02/21/2009, -0/+6except for the fact that the first line in the article said that "uhbama" rejected this idea outright. It is individual states looking at it with interest now.
You fail. - JohnA, on 02/21/2009, -1/+7Did you even RTFA? "Unbama's" press secretary emphatically stated that this would NOT happen in the Obama administration.
You might want to check in at wnd.com... they're wondering where you went. - rolf, on 02/21/2009, -1/+7This idea is completely stupid. First, it would be much costlier to administer, probably building some huge and useless bureacracy around it, negating much of the revenue benefit OR requiring the tax to be a bigger drag on society than a simple gas tax increase would have been in the first place.
Second, if it's enforced by some type of GPS system you need to install in your car, say goodbye to privacy. But then, you're probably the type of ***** that cheers when Patriot Act III with mandatory phone taps on everyone comes about and announces that you're okay with it since you have nothing to hide being the boring and bland twit you are. - Maynza, on 02/21/2009, -2/+8Ah yes, count me in for putting a government gps tracking device in my vehicle.
- ericdano, on 02/21/2009, -3/+8God, instead of cutting Government, and making it more efficient, they want to keep sticking it to the people. So this is the change huh?
I regret Obamabidenlying getting into office.......Their Tres Sec is MIA, causing the markets to continue to slide down. Obama goes off to Canada.......Pelosi and crew go to Europe. What the hell is going on? - Rioracer916, on 02/21/2009, -3/+8Car registration will probably require you to report your odometer reading annually. Then they'll take the difference and tax you based on that.
Anyone else feel like the government is turning into a cancer on working Americans? - DrDigg, on 02/21/2009, -6/+11Transportation department already came out and said Obama will not pursue this. It even says it in the article. This is alarmist crap.
- JustinCase18, on 02/21/2009, -0/+5Funny, if its not possible then explain how my trucking fleet has already been equipped with what you've described as required by the DOT. At any time I can sit at my monitor and see where my drivers are, how many hours he has left, etc. If he gets pulled over, the state trooper has all of that information at his fingertips as well.
I heard the same argument when mandatory seatbelts were proposed. At the time, my vehicle had no seatbelts or means to install them. If the government wants this tax, they'll simply phase out the vehicles that cannot comply in a short period of time and raise the tax to finance the coversion process. (Good luck on that "conversion tax" going away once the cars are phased out, you're still paying the tax to put up telephone poles so that the entire country can have telephone service.) - vuke69, on 02/21/2009, -2/+7I'm sure they'd also be kind enough to send you a ticket in the mail every time you happened to break the speed limit.. you know, for your own convenience of course.
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -1/+6Obama already said no to this suggestion.
- realunderdog, on 02/21/2009, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax
Too Late. - awfl, on 02/21/2009, -1/+5Fuel efficient cars likely weigh less, a lot less; even battery ones carry their loads more distributed than a heavy truck.
Also, roads are engineered for the largest weight allowed; why do I want or need roads that support a fully loaded coal truck? Look at West Virginia where trucks were caught 200% over limit, destroying roads and possibly bridges in the process. - grungegbunny, on 02/21/2009, -2/+6I 2nd that.
- avidlinuxuser, on 02/21/2009, -1/+5this story even says obama shut it down. mostly, i think they are just idiots who never learned how to properly read an article.
- JustinCase18, on 02/21/2009, -0/+4Yup, it's on my sewer bill.
- dusanmal, on 02/21/2009, -0/+4Read the article. They want this in addition to the gas tax....
- kskwared, on 02/21/2009, -2/+6He can't seek medical attention. We don't have socialized medicine yet and he can't afford private insurance because all of his money goes to gas taxes.
- xerodustrial, on 02/20/2009, -4/+8This will never going to work in America. It's too goddamned big a country. To make it even reasonably feasible (as in, the taxpaying public doesn't vote your ***** out of office due to outrage over the program) to tax by the mile, the tax would be so low per mile driven that it would actually probably end up being more profitable to just tax the gas purchased. It MIGHT be reasonably possible in some smaller states, but big ones with serious city sprawl -- my home town of Houston, for example -- it would fail miserably. The distances people travel are just too high. I drive more than 50 miles a day to get to work, and I actually live pretty close compared to my coworkers -- some of them have 2 or 3 hour commutes daily. This isn't London or NY, where millions of people are packed into a really small space. The space here is huge, and those millions of people spread out.
- samdobermann, on 02/21/2009, -0/+4Hey dude,
You can apply for a refund of the gas tax for gas used in a lawn mower, etc, that is not used on the highway.
Look on your tax return or in the instructions for the return. - Nerys, on 02/21/2009, -1/+4The problem is ismple. I do not trust them. Period. They say only the tax amount will be downloaded. I say they are lying and eventually they will gain FULL access to this information.
We have cell phones
they can be tracked
now tracking ability is MANDATORY and you can not turn if off for police
We have EZ Pass
It allows you to be tracked
Now police can access this information to find someone of interest
How long before "police" will be permitted access to this data.
Its guaranteed
No thanks Over my dead body will I voluntarily put a Government GPS device in my car or any other such device.
I do not even like the black box data recorders since OFF COURSE now the police can confiscate this device and use it against you. - scamper22, on 02/21/2009, -0/+3The very idea that it was suggested by a Transportation secretary sickens me.
- ShuttleXpC, on 02/21/2009, -4/+7I'm curious why people are still obliviously posting comments when me along with several other users have linked stories showing that Obama does NOT want this, and has said NO.
- dusanmal, on 02/21/2009, -1/+4GPS mandate is not possibility. Read the article and see test runs like in Oregon:
"The system would require all cars and trucks be equipped with global satellite positioning technology, a transponder, a clock and other equipment to record how many miles a vehicle was driven, whether it was driven on highways or secondary roads, and even whether it was driven during peak traffic periods or off-peak hours." - inactive, on 02/21/2009, -2/+5I am pretty sure the Democrats know that this is Political death. Was just reading that Obama shot down this plan. What sane Politician would suggest taxing by the mile. Whatever their political beliefs the American people would mostly revolt.
I am wondering why Democrats don't focus on ideas that might actually improve lives when they have so much control, like raising the minimum wage? The issue never comes up when they have full control. Either in that small time period during the clinton years or now. You wan't to help the poor and disadvantaged start there. But I personally believe they know that. But I am sure their Business backers are happy with $7 a hour. Should be $10-12 in my opinion. But not 1 democrat has every suggested it. Why are they afraid if they truly raise the standard of living of the poorest Americans who actually live on minimum wage? These failed opportunities remind me why there really hasn't been much change in Washington. - JustinCase18, on 02/21/2009, -0/+3Sure it'll work, the states most affected by this are the "flyover" states that most politicians could care less about.
- dusanmal, on 02/21/2009, -0/+3Yes, Revren' Al will say that you are polluting mother Earth and you must pay tax to remedy your evil doing upon it...
- ncapone, on 02/21/2009, -0/+3If you drive a car I'll tax the street.
- Ebacherville, on 02/21/2009, -0/+3there doing this becuase electric cars are comming and wont collect gas tax any longer, the government isnt about being green there about sucking all the cash thy can from every one of us slaves
- gn84, on 02/21/2009, -1/+4Government control is exactly why they want it...
It's totally beyond logical for it to have any other purpose. Gasoline taxes are used primarily to pay for road construction and maintenance. Heavier, less fuel efficient vehicles cause much, much more damage to roads than lighter, fuel efficient vehicles. A mileage-based tax system will cost more to implement AND will inherently encourage heavier, less efficient vehicles. - PopcornDave, on 02/21/2009, -0/+3Exactly. How long does it usually take to jailbreak an iPhone? How long do you think it would take some enterprising hackers who just want to see if it could be done to do it?
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