Of Course Rhode Island Likes It
The idea of a "miles driven" tax on vehicles is foolish on its face, so it may be that LaHood's position in the cabinet is acceptable to him because of advanced dementia. How a Republican of any stripe could propose such legislation is beyond me. But notice how quickly the administration which he is serving slapped him unceremoniously down. If he has learned his lesson, he won't speak again without approval from the Master and his minions.
Notice if you will, how the proposal itself is the sort of thing that could only come out of grid-locked east coast metro states. It reminds me of the 55 MPH national speed limit the Beltway crowd, which obviously never transitted west Texas, passed in the '70s. Certainly it is telling that the governor of Rhode Island would favor it. You can't log any significant miles in RI without running out of state in about half an hour. Where I live, there's no place you can reasonably go to work or to a supermarket in under 50 miles. I think I'd pay more than my fair share.
But more frightening than any of this stupidity is this part:
The mileage system would require all cars and trucks be equipped with global satellite positioning technology, a transponder, a clock and other equipment to record how many miles a vehicle was driven, whether it was driven on highways or secondary roads, and even whether it was driven during peak traffic periods or off-peak hours.
So, how many years of tax under this system would it take to fund the equipment necessary to implement it?
And, how many ways can this sort of government monitoring of your every vehicle movement be called instrusive? Constitutional violations here? Anyone? Bueller?
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