The extreme greenies, control freaks, and Obamanistas love this. It’s coming. They want your money to control your lives.
VMT TAX COMING
The extreme greenies, control freaks, and Obamanistas love this. It’s coming. They want your money to control your lives.
Don’t we already pay a gas tax for every mile we drive? In MA we also pay an excise tax on every vehicle yearly and sales tax every time a vehicle changes hands even if you give it away. Fuck these assholes and their taxes, if they want more money why don’t they just print it. Oh wait their doing that too.
Bob.
how perverted is this, the govt subsidizes (gives out stolen money) and decrees autos get higher mileage while also being “safer” (and heavier thus less efficient), then they bitch and moan about not getting enough “revenue” so now they need to tax miles driven. i (like admin) live in pa and jsut like the education system, they dont’ need more money. they need to be more efficient and give public unions the boot.
eric peters has been talking about this for years, it’s not if, it’s when.
new cars have the black boxes and insurance companies like progressive have devices that track how you drive. it always starts off as voluntary until it is deemed necessary for the good of (hold you breath) “the chil’run.”
just another reason to keep fixing up my pre-OBD2 cars ad infinitum.
it would replace the gasoline tax, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, anyone willing to take the end of the bet that says that will happen?
it’s funny that whenever government comes up with a “solution”, the average person can better describe it as a rape.
It’s part of the “How a country dies” deal. Governments at all levels are desperate for more money. So, more new taxes, described and justified with Madison Avenue techniques.
the French government attempted to do the same last year.
they built licence plate reading devices on bridges over the motorways and highways, and intended to give a private company the right to collect taxes directly on households and business linked to the vehicules.
it ended that people blew a fuse in hot blooded region of France: Bretagne (Britain, under Normandy).
the people, farmers, business owners entered full scale guerilla and destroyed 60 data stations (big brother automatic cameras), mostly by burning them with tires.
as a result, the government step back and gave up the tax.
if you all stand up against a tax, you have a chance to avoid this shit. keep unite
I’ve just about had it with these meddling assholes. This will probably put me on a ‘list’ for saying it but I don’t care anymore.
They need to take a dirt nap. We need a fucking revolution.
Not going to happen – not enough congresscritters from the Rethuglican Party are willing, yet, to commit political suicide by voting for a new tax. BC-LR to all
“They need to take a dirt nap. We need a fucking revolution.”
—-Jim
Another TBP visitor weighs in with a typically mild comment for which this forum has become famous. Heh.
Remember that $850 billion economic stimulus package in 2009 that was supposed to go to “shovel ready jobs” to fix the nation’s infrastructure? A huge government success story worthy of numerous dirt naps. Damn, Jim’s sentiments are contagious.
The Beatles – Taxman:
Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you, nineteen for me
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman
If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.
Don’t ask me what I want it for
If you don’t want to pay some more
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
And you’re working for no one but me.
They collect gas tax already. At the pump.
This is an inevitable conclusion to a couple different issues. First, due to the greater depression we find ourselves in, the number of miles being driven in this country has been in decline, this tax revenues from gasoline taxes must also be suffering. Secondly, as newer, more efficient cars are being bought, financed and/or leased by folks in response to higher and higher gas prices, the overall fuel economy of the nation’s cars is probably on the rise. Since gas taxes are per the gallon, higher mileage vehicles will take a bite out of that revenue stream. The two of these coupled together, means that the urban hippy who only rarely drives his Prius, or even worse, the rich guy who drives his Tesla and they think they are saving the world, are actually inadvertently helping to starve the beast.
Government provides incentives and the people respond. As an example, when unemployment pays better than a crappy job, people will choose it. If gas taxes are raised, people will tend to buy more fuel efficient cars and/or drive less. This is partly just another example of an unintended consequence.
It ain’t about the money. It’s about mandated GPS monitoring. They have the cellphone data now. They want the car data. Eventually they’ll want to implant GPS chips into everyone. Hey, if you’re not doing anything illegal why would you object, right?
Car tracking is done via bluetooth. Don’t have to rely on an occupant having a cell phone turned on that way. The car itself is tracked. But, yeah, a better way to keep tabs on us all would be a desired trick for our oppressors.