So when did you say the next tea partys were going to be held..? Personally I feel July 4th would be nice its on a weekend so all of us whom still have a job will most likely be able to make it.the last partys were much smaller than they could have been..

I hate the idea of any new taxes. I don't want/need any new services from the government.

However I will never put a government controlled GPS in my car.

I was on hold the first time Boortz brought this up for a long while, if this tax has to pass here is how it should be implemented.

A tire tax. Even green cars use tires. I would say brakes too, but green cars use magnetic breaking that doesn't wear down as fast as conventional pads. What all cars do use is tires. If you drive your car hard (causing additional damage to the road) your tires wear out faster. If you are a conservative driver then your tires last longer. Tires last on average about 50,000 miles. There is your new per mile tax that is evenly distributed among all types of cars and without the intrusion of a government installed GPS.

And as far as the trucking industry goes, they do more damage to the roads with their heavy loads than do passenger cars and should be paying more, and they would because they have more tires. I understand that that cost would be just passed onto us the consumers, but there are other ways to ship goods besides the trucking industry (rail, boat, plane).

But like I said I don't like the idea of the new tax, but if they are going to implement it, do it in a way that the tax is collected at the point of sale, not through some tracking/filing method.

Lets just say this is where the "Rubber meets the Road".

If there's ever a mistake, and we know the government never makes mistakes, they just cut off your car 'til it's cleared up. Unless, of course, you've paid tribute to your local dp commissar.

They don't drive anyway because they can't afford the vehicle. No skin off their nose I suppose.

Government is double dipping because they are pushing people to buy cars that don't rely on the taxes they get from gas. They can't get the tax one way, they'll get it another. In NC, tax on gas is around 32¢ a gallon. I moved closer to work so I didn't have to get beat up so badly. I went from filling my truck two times a week to once every two weeks. I still would not get hit too badly if they pushed this, but the local, state and federal governments are starting to get my goat on all these taxes.

Oh, and don't forget the increase hikes in car inspections and vehicular taxes that were supposed to help pay for road projects. So, we get taxed to have a mechanic tell us it is ok to drive our car, taxed because we have a fully paid for car that someone can't make money off of other than us if we sell it (well, except for the money you made as income from the sale of your vehicle), taxed for the oil that someone else processed to run in our cars (as if the government would actually do something like work), and now they are going to tax us to drive on roads we already paid taxes on.

You know, I need to lose weight anyway. Think I'll start biking it to work.

If gasoline tax revenues are in decline, doesn't that mean that people are driving less? If they are driving less, that means people are not driving as many miles as they used to. So Oberstar's idea to tax mileage doesn't seem to me to generate the tax revenues he wants to generate.

Let's do a 5 year test in Minnesota. They aren't the brightest people in the country anyway...look at their former Governor and the fellow they may put in the senate...these are some seriously intellectually challanged folk. They won't mind being the pilot project host.

(1) I love the way this tax has a contradicting goal with what the environmental/warmer wackos have. Fuel efficient cars are the dream for the warmers. With this mileage tax, several already correctly made the point that there will be no motivation to purchase fuel efficient cars now. However, the new GM CEO's, President OBozo, entire plan for the auto industry is to produce more fuel efficient cars that no one now wants to buy, let alone after this tax is imposed!!! RESULT: Less fuel efficient cars, warmers lose out on this one!

(2) If this tax passes, I guess more people will look to use public transit. If they do that, then simple logic tells you that less people will be driving, which means less tax revenues. When the revenues fall short, what other tax will the libs dream up to make the shortfall?

So, we institute CAFE standards that make automobiles more efficient, but didn't forsee the reduction in tax revenues? And now, the statists don't have the guts to raise the excise tax on fuels, so they try to slide in another new tax without thought as to the repercussions of that. I'm sick of the Amateur Hour ...

You want to know the reason gas tax revenue is down? It's because the government mandates that vehicles get better mileage. Therefore, the government mandates that less gas be used - thus reducing the gas tax revenues. It's not that people are driving less, but in general less gas is being used per vehicle.

So will this affect those traveling on public transit, such as buses? You know, the poor and the prisoners just reported about on Fox who are taking the bus from prison setting to prison setting? There will be your subsidy for their tickets!

"The tax would entail equipping vehicles with GPS technology to determine how many miles a car has been driven and whether on interstate highways or secondary roads. The devices would also calculate the amount of tax owed."

Doesn't anyone see what else this could be used for?

Would this apply to the trucking companies that deliver goods/products through out the country.
We all know that the trucking companies will just raise thier rates, meaning the purchases/retailer will pay more for the goods, meaning they have to raise the price of those goods.
Can you imagine the the cost of goods after they pass on this tax to the consumers.

So now there is no benefit whatsoever to operating a fuel efficient car?

Also, if you think that the government is not going to use the GPS info for other things, you are in La-La land.

boy, how much money you can make if you started a business of racking the miles off your car. odometer specialist.

This was the grandstanding jerk who grounded American Airlines down for a few days last year when he said that FAA inspections weren't tough enough. So, the airline had to go and duct tape some wires just for this idiot. This guy also was in bed with unions (I think it was the baggage handlers!) when he was opposing the Northwest-Delta merger.