A new User Fee based system for ........ us drivers??
Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:38 pm
OK, so does Washington know ANY other tunes? 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090220/ap_ ... ileage_tax
"Gasoline taxes that for nearly half a century have paid for the federal share of highway and bridge construction can no longer be counted on to raise enough money to keep the nation's transportation system moving, LaHood told the AP in an interview Thursday.
"We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles that they traveled," the former Illinois Republican lawmaker said Thursday."
"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.
The device would tally how much tax motorists owed depending upon their road use. Motorists would pay the amount owed when it was downloaded, probably at gas stations at first, but an alternative eventually would be needed."
Pete
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090220/ap_ ... ileage_tax
"Gasoline taxes that for nearly half a century have paid for the federal share of highway and bridge construction can no longer be counted on to raise enough money to keep the nation's transportation system moving, LaHood told the AP in an interview Thursday.
"We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles that they traveled," the former Illinois Republican lawmaker said Thursday."
"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.
The device would tally how much tax motorists owed depending upon their road use. Motorists would pay the amount owed when it was downloaded, probably at gas stations at first, but an alternative eventually would be needed."
Pete
Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:35 pm
I saw that story earlier. Exactly what we don't need is another tax collection system complete with infrastructure requirements, a bureaucracy to run it, and a bunch of politicians writing the rules.
No way this proposal will fly. He'll get laughted out of the country.
No way this proposal will fly. He'll get laughted out of the country.
Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:58 pm
besides, a gas tax would do much the same thing without wasting all the money cranking up a new tax system.
Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:56 pm
I saw that story earlier. Exactly what we don't need is another tax collection system complete with infrastructure requirements, a bureaucracy to run it, and a bunch of politicians writing the rules.
No way this proposal will fly. He'll get laughted out of the country.
You're going to see a lot more of this! You laugh now, but we are in a soft tyranny. This stuff will happen in a deceptive, through the back door way. Things will get rammed through the system so nobody can stop it in time. Very hideous stuff.
Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:08 am
Been given the thumbs down. Iz dead.
Next thing to get paranoid about?
Next thing to get paranoid about?
Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:06 am
A2C wrote:I saw that story earlier. Exactly what we don't need is another tax collection system complete with infrastructure requirements, a bureaucracy to run it, and a bunch of politicians writing the rules.
No way this proposal will fly. He'll get laughted out of the country.
You're going to see a lot more of this! You laugh now, but we are in a soft tyranny. This stuff will happen in a deceptive, through the back door way. Things will get rammed through the system so nobody can stop it in time. Very hideous stuff.
The Horrer! The Horrer!
*wipes face with wet hanky*
Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:18 am
The Horrer! The Horrer!
*wipes face with wet hanky*
You wait and see. Don't come crying to me when they've banned guns and grounded warbirds. It's headed that way my friend. Shall I check back in a year or two and say I told you so?