States Consider Mileage Tax Via GPS: Should Drivers Be Taxed for Miles Driven?
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2012/07/19 22:44:30
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OAKLAND (KCBS) – Bay Area drivers could one day be tracked using a GPS-like device in their cars and taxed per miles driven -- a scenario which is part of a proposed long-range study aimed at finding ways to reduce traffic and pollution, while also raising revenues. States consider mileage tax via GPS. Should drivers be taxed for miles driven?
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'Zedd 2012/07/19 22:47:56
But that won't happen. They'll implement this eventually. They need to replace the gas tax as more cars go off gas and as they get better gas mileage.
Is anyone else bothered by that?
However, with the advent of electric/hybrids...in order to get to the diminishing road taxes, they will collect by state via GPS, eventually. (If in the state of origin, you are billed. If out of state, you pay the road tax in that state.)
All cars will come with an RF chip in the license plate, which also bills you on tolls.
In CA, they already have an RF device you place inside your windshield, so you can go through the express toll gates.
I did not say I condone this...but when it comes to states getting their money fix...they tend to follow the easy money.
Since you live in the State of, (oh do not share a state) I wonder what sacrifices YOU make to balance your state/national Budget? General Electric Pays nothing in Federal Taxes, Oil Companies pay little to nothing.
How about levying a Fee on every US Corporation that has jobs in Foreign, (even Communist China) countries? one employee (or independent Contractor, yea, lose That loophole) one tax.
Note: according to http://www.glassdoor.com/Sala... Hewlett Packard led by mrs get a million for eliminating US jobs NutMeg Whitless, is paying Communist Chinese Engineers and Project Managers an average of $60,858.50 a year! (388,118 Yuan) I think a LOT of American Engineers would be happy with those wages!
According to: http://www.crn.com/news/mobil...
"HP, faced with challenges to several of its core businesses, is in the midst of a restructuring that will likely include layoffs. One audience member asked Whitman if she could provide a specific number for jobs she anticipates cutting.
"As we create the financial capacity to invest in R&D, in people and customer support, we have to look at how we spend money across HP," she responded...
Since you live in the State of, (oh do not share a state) I wonder what sacrifices YOU make to balance your state/national Budget? General Electric Pays nothing in Federal Taxes, Oil Companies pay little to nothing.
How about levying a Fee on every US Corporation that has jobs in Foreign, (even Communist China) countries? one employee (or independent Contractor, yea, lose That loophole) one tax.
Note: according to http://www.glassdoor.com/Sala... Hewlett Packard led by mrs get a million for eliminating US jobs NutMeg Whitless, is paying Communist Chinese Engineers and Project Managers an average of $60,858.50 a year! (388,118 Yuan) I think a LOT of American Engineers would be happy with those wages!
According to: http://www.crn.com/news/mobil...
"HP, faced with challenges to several of its core businesses, is in the midst of a restructuring that will likely include layoffs. One audience member asked Whitman if she could provide a specific number for jobs she anticipates cutting.
"As we create the financial capacity to invest in R&D, in people and customer support, we have to look at how we spend money across HP," she responded. "That's a process that we're going through, so everything is on the table."
However, Whitman said layoffs will not impact employees in HP's China-based operations. "There will be no workforce reduction in China on a broad scale at all. You will not see broad-based workforce reduction across any of our businesses," she said.".
Yes, Get rid of More American Jobs, but do not threaten Communist China! I will not Buy another HP product as long as Whitman is their CEO, and judging from her record, HP will be in the poorhouse from her managing, oops outsourcing history.
Right, CEO pay has grown to 700% of worker wages, yet workers when adjusted for inflation have been flat since the 1960's
The only thing Whitless knows is how to destroy companies, that is why eBay asked her to resign.
Please do us all a favor and take your morally worthless ass to NV,
Thanks to the job killing "free trade" agreements that they signed, the average working resident in my county has to drive between 35 and 60 miles, one way to get to work.
Let me make it clear, though: Charging for miles driven (measured via GPS or some other reliable method) would be acceptable to me ONLY with a coincident elimination of comparable taxes at the pump.