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Title: What free country? Obama wants to track your car mileage
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American Thinker
URL Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog ... _free_country_obama_wants.html
Published: May 5, 2011
Author: Rick Moran
Post Date: 2011-05-05 16:03:50 by CZ82
Keywords: None
Views: 1929
Comments: 7
What free country? Obama wants to track your car mileage Rick Moran This idea was floated last year but the reaction to it was so negative it disappeared. But with the deficit and debt climbing, Washington is desperate for extra cash to spend, so it is apparently being revived. In essence, the government wants to slap a a special tracking device in your car that would record the mileage you use, and then tax it. You'd pay the tax when you fill up at gas stations who also, we would assume, have special equipment to read the mileage on the device in your car. And if gas stations can read it, so can the government. And then there's the question of what other gizmos they might put in that device. GPS? Why not? Who's going to stop them? The Obama administration denies that they are in favor of this, but several lawmakers have suggested it, as has the CBO. The Hill: The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive. The plan is a part of the administration's "Transportation Opportunities Act," an undated draft of which was obtained this week by Transportation Weekly. The more innocuous sounding the title of the bill, the more a threat to American liberty. March Congressional Budget Office report that supported the idea of taxing drivers based on miles driven. Among other things, CBO suggested that a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax could be tracked by installing electronic equipment on each car to determine how many miles were driven; payment could take place electronically at filling stations. The CBO report was requested by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND), who has proposed taxing cars by the mile as a way to increase federal highway revenues. Obama's proposal seems to follow up on that idea in section 2218 of the draft bill. That section would create, within the Federal Highway Administration, a Surface Transportation Revenue Alternatives Office. It would be tasked with creating a "study framework that defines the functionality of a mileage-based user fee system and other systems." The marriage of technology and injudicious taxes is a marriage made in hell.
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#1. To: CZ82 (#0)
Your article is false: "Thats because your basically and idiot." I'm sure our resident environMENTAList, go56 (who gets everything ass backwards), will be along shortly, to justify Big Brother's latest attempt at a power-grab...
Socialist ass-hats think "There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." And yes, that IS from LF's answer to Ben Bernanke, go65, leading disfunctional and delusional socialist of the forum. "You want me to kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, I'll kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, Rebs, or Sioux, or Cheyenne... For 500 bucks a month I'll kill whoever you want. But keep one thing in mind: I'd happily kill you for free." Algren, "The Last Samurai" So why don't you e-mail Mr Moran at American Thinker and tell him he's a liar!!!!!
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning (_*_)
right wing pundits aren't typically interested in accuracy.
"Thats because your basically and idiot." And the Libtards are?????? ROTFLMAO........
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning (_*_)
It ties in with cheesy electric cars and $5 gasoline. It's about controlling people's movement and keeping them near population centers.
war has to do something for entertainment. The voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
With electric and higher MPG vehicles less gasoline will be used, in essence less fuel tax income... So the Libtard idiots have to figure out a way to get that money back by "phucking" you somehow....
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning (_*_)
“This is not an administration proposal," White House spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said. "This is not a bill supported by the administration. This was an early working draft proposal that was never formally circulated within the administration, does not taken into account the advice of the president’s senior advisers, economic team or Cabinet officials, and does not represent the views of the president.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/159397-obama-floats-plan-to-tax-cars-by-the-mile
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#2. To: CZ82, go65, all other enviroNAZIS, (#0)
What free country? Obama wants to track your car mileage
#3. To: go65 (#1)
Your article is false:
#4. To: CZ82 (#3)
So why don't you e-mail Mr Moran at American Thinker and tell him he's a liar!!!!!
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#5. To: go65 (#4)
right wing pundits aren't typically interested in accuracy.
#6. To: CZ82 (#0)
#7. To: Rudgear (#6)
It ties in with cheesy electric cars and $5 gasoline
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