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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
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“We want to do as Washington and Oregon have done in a much bigger state with much longer commutes…to make sure that we find out whether it would work, whether the public would like it or not,” DeSaulnier said.
Uh, Senator, the 1,500 people per week who have left California for other states for the past fifteen years, including me, are a good indication that the public doesn’t like California’s taxation or how the state spends the tax money (plus the money that the state doesn’t have).
I like this idea of a voluntary tax because I learned in the Army not to volunteer.
This spells the end of the electric car.
In Canada we already tax diesel fuel more than gasoline to equalize the road tax paid per liter by diesel users. Once the mileage tax is widely accepted, gasoline users will declare it unfair that electrics pay less tax per mile – and once the taxes are equalized, electrics will cost more to buy, more to maintain, and the same the operate while requiring slow, frequent, refueling and remaining limited to short trips in temperate climates.
If the tax-per-mile scheme is mandated in the future I expect that hacking of the electronic odometers will become commonplace.
If the tax-per-mile scheme is mandated in the future I expect that accidents due to people driving in reverse down the highway to increase.
I suspect if the tax-per-mile scheme is mandated a mob of angry motorists will burn down Sacramento. Americans love their cars and this is nothing more than a ploy to separate them from their vehicles.
It’s not revenue lost due to fuel efficient vehicles. They would like you to believe that.
It’s revenue lost because there is a lot less driving done when people don’t have jobs to drive to. Compound that with additional revenue lost because people who actually work for a living and pay taxes have left. The remaining are on the dole, illegal paying no taxes, or both.
L.A. finally synchronized their traffic light systems. Now THAT probably saved a billion gallons a year. Finally! Someone rubbed two thoughts together and generated the spark necessary to blow their head out of their a55. This probably saved more fuel than 10,000 subsidized sparky cars. But…. we haven’t heard much about that.
Friend of mine worked for BAE Systems or Booze Allan or some such. They were looking into a system where vehicles were tracked and would pay by mile. Very high end stuff. I remarked that I though they would just use the mileage pulled on the annual inspection. He fell silent. I don’t know whether he had just realized that tracking was the real game or that the whole thing could be easily handled when the vehicle is inspected. Smart fellow, but, no common sense.
There is only really one story here. Its when will they make this Mandatory instead of voluntary?
Vacation tax. Next without doubt will be a fart one.
After all paying for those illegal immigrants takes money for welfare.
California has been over run with a virus that ends only when it kills its host population. Socialism.
tax per mile. hmm, no more flordia. I do think the average Canadian would sign up for any new tax as quickly as possible. you see Canadians love taxes. they have never ever found one that they would like to repeal. they vote for anyone who will promise them anything that they do not have to work for themselves. that my friends is an accurate history of how and why Canadians vote, and I did not need to put a date in because every election revolves around what will I get if I elect this guy/gal.
And the stupid policies of the moonbat center of the universe never stop; found on same page as the link:
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/05/05/state-bill-banning-sale-of-confederate-flag-passes/
Agree with ∞ ≠ ø that fewer people working mean less fuel sales and, given the high cost of gasoline in the US, people are using alternative means of transportation for short trips.
35 years ago I was seriously thinking of moving to California, but now much prefer visiting Northern Florida which is still redneck and one of the many places in the states hoping that the SW part of the USA slides into the ocean.
Didn’t this happen in Ontario in a similar fashion as California when their tax revenue dropped as people bought smaller cars. Ontario’s “smart meters” using higher daily rates forced many people to use devices like washing machines at the night rate. Of course once this was established they just raised the night rate.