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States explore new ways to tax motorists for road repair; pay by the mile = black boxes in cars to track miles
Topic Started: June 4, 2012, 8:46 am (769 Views)
Blessedx4
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States explore new ways to tax motorists for road repair
By Larry Copeland and Paul Overberg, USA TODAY
Updated 13h 42m ago
By Bob Riha, Jr., USA TODAY
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The greatest obstacle to a miles-traveled tax has been privacy concerns.

Among the leading ideas: Taxing drivers for how many miles they travel rather than how much gasoline they buy. Minnesota and Oregon already are testing technology to keep track of mileage. Other states, including Washington and Nevada, are preparing similar projects.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-03/states-motorist-taxes/55367022/1





btw states with highest gas taxes -> http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ny-ca-and-ct-levy-highest-state-gasoline-taxes-nation what do they do with that extra money and what will happen when people switch to alternative energies and they're not getting as much of that revenue?

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bopeep1909
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They are always trying to find ways to tax us for this or for that. :madnod
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DMac
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It would be nice if they were always trying to find ways to stop spending on this or that. :madnod
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cricket55
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They are always looking for ways to get those last pennies that people are trying to save.
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cporter73

In Ontario, we pay ridiculously high taxes. Our gas prices are so high because 33% of the cost of Gas is taxes. We also have a major toll road in Ontario, which snaps a picture of your license plate when you get on, and another when you leave the toll road. You then get a bill in the mail. We use it occasionally to avoid traffic and we don't mind paying for the convenience. Now if the gov't wanted to put a black box on my car and track my mileage, I'd have to say no way. Talk about invasion of privacy. They've already installed Smart Meters on our homes without asking us if we want them, which I think is a major invasion of my privacy. They can sell the information on my electricity usage to anyone they want without my permission and they claim that they don't give names and addresses but come on, once they see how much money people are willing to pay for that info, they'll be selling it. I think this is just another way for the government to try to police us. Pretty soon we won't be able to do anything without the government knowing about it.
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