taxation on miles driven

[solidground]

Tweetiposted how this was a possibility in texas about a year ago..how bad would this law suck if it gets passed.


Gas tax on miles, not gallons, tested

UPI | March 27 2006

Oregon is testing the idea of collecting highway funds through a tax on miles driven, rather than gasoline consumed.

Eighty percent of Oregon's highway money comes from its 24-cents-per-gallon gas tax. If the state promotes reducing gasoline consumption and consumers tend to buy the fuel-efficient vehicles, including hybrids, highway revenues would take a hit, The New York Times reported.

The test program uses a global positioning system to track miles driven, using a black box to calculate how many miles are clocked in-state, out of state and during rush hour.

The experiment is designed to increase state revenue for road maintenance without raising gasoline taxes, but critics say collecting GPS records poses new privacy issues.

"The existence of such a database, which would, for the first time in history, allow for the creation of detailed daily itineraries of every driver, raises obvious privacy concerns," said David L. Sobel, general counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group in Washington.

[FUZO]

TweetSTART TAKING THE BUS OR TRAIN TO WORK

[pigmeat]

TweetI like the idea...make the people that Use the resources like highways take care of them...I think all interstates should be toll roads...that would be even better

[supasaiyan99]

TweetI don't mind paying tolls to use the highway, but paying per mile that is rediculous unless it was 1 cent per mile. I live about 65 miles away from work and spend $3 in tolls each way. That's about 4.6 cents per mile. If they cut it to half then I wouldn't mind!

[Iron_Gook]

TweetCalifornia was thinking about adopting this plan as well...

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[solidground]

Tweetits not a bad concept because it will help eliminate some pollution bc less people will drive, but it cuts down on privacy

[Waterboy]

TweetOpens the door to extreme invasion of privacy.

[DJDIGGLER]

TweetThey can kiss my ars if they think I'm going to allow them anywhere near my truck with that crap! That's a violation of my right! Yet again the money hungry government tries to find more ways to screw it's citizens and take away our freedom of privacy.

Isn't this the crap that we left England for and moved to America? Isn't it this type of sh@t that our ancestors fought the revolutionary war for? So why the f@*k are we letting them even consider this kind of crap? Enough of this garbage with the government slowly making us their robots who will fall in line when they say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DJDIGGLER]

TweetWhat next we have to move to Mars and have another revolutionary war there? Or maybe create some underwater bubble cities and have a revolutionary war there? Or maybe just maybe since there isn't anywhere else logically to go we as american citizens stop letting our government walk all over us, and start making our voices heard.

[T-Man007]

TweetDamn liberals! What will they think of next. You know, that kind of crap always starts in places where the highest concentration of liberals are. Are they so dumb they don't realize they are getting phuked twice? If you want more money ofr roads then build toll roads and those who don't want to pay can take back roads.

[solidground]

Tweetactually it was origianlly proposed in texas

[DJDIGGLER]

Tweetand texas is heavily republican is it not?