Americans, as is everyone else in the world, are in love with their cars. We drive to work in our cars, drive to entertainment venues in our cars, take trips in our cars...we go everywhere in our cars. Put a tank of gas in our cars and away we go. Of late, we have been complaining a lot about the cost of that gas, averaging well over $3 gallon for the past five years. That price breaks down a lot of different ways. Getting a cut is the supplier, shipper, vendor, state and federal governments. Those last two get their share by way of the dreaded "T" word...taxes.
The federal people say the so called gas fund is broke (seems everything in Washington is 'broke' these days) and politicians are afraid to raise the gas tax per gallon because the total cost per gallon is high and it might not make the driving public too happy. Like a new tax would?! Hypocrites they are because they think nothing of raising the income tax despite low incomes (that are getting even lower.)
So, their plan to raise money is to strap a black box to your beloved vehicle and tax you as you drive! No joke! Click the link to get the skinny on this new 'Big Brother' intrusion: You Drive, They Tax
Sorry, but if this is allowed to happen, there's no telling how far they will take it. It's akin to to the NSA collecting info on your cell phone calls and emails. They can say all they want that they won't collect data on where you drive or when or anything else. Bull! They can expand this thing as far as they want...and will. Beware!
As for the funding part of this scheme, they may lower the federal and or state tax and add the miles to it. But since they are trying to increase the amount of money they take in, it will cost you more. Politicians are stupid by nature and this is just one more stupid idea. If they think that taxing Americans by the mile will bring more money into the coffers, they're nuts. People will cut their driving habits a ton and consolidate their trips to avoid paying more in taxes, so the coffers will suffer anyway.
So, what is the solution? Something the government doesn't know how to do but that we demand it do. We all know their is mega tons of waste in government. Cut out the waste and overspending and redistribute some of money into the gas fund and there will be no need for this obvious intrusive nonsense into our lives.
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