Taxing the Miles You Drive. GPS to Track and Record All Vehicles?

There Ought to Be a Law!

Gas prices were too high and we weren't green enough. Fine, buy an electric car or gas saving car and all is fine. Right? Wrong. The Oregon Governor thinks gas taxes are going away. His answer? Tax the miles you drive. Tax the miles you drive with GPS technology. Think they are kidding? They're not.

The Oregon governor believes taxing every mile you drive is fair for all. Really? What if your job requires you to be on the road? What if you live in rural areas and have to travel to a job or to get groceries? You too will pay the tax for the miles you drive. GPS, remember when you thought it was a cool idea?

Not only will the miles you drive be taxed, but also the congestion time at which you drive. If you put your car on the road at congested times of traffic you will be taxed a bit more.

How will this GPS work to track you? How will anyone know when or how many miles you drive? The gas pump is going to tell them! When you fill up with gas, the gas pump will read your car's GPS. It will tell them how many miles you have driven since you last filled. It will also tell them where (what roads) you drove and at what time you drove on them.

Remember when smokers begged for people to be a little understanding? Remember when smokers warned that there would be a tax that ALL people would have to pay on something they held dear? Well, I think the GPS tax for tracking and taxing every mile you drive just may fit that bill.

This tax, like the cigarette smokers tax, will have devastating consequences on the poor and middle income people. With a tax on every mile we drive, not to mention tracking information on every mile we drive, are we seeing the "hope" and "change" that Obama and the democrats were talking about?

Car manufacturers plan to outfit every vehicle with a GPS unit. I assume they will make the rest of us install one like the TV boxes. Taxes, taxes, taxes. Start adding them up people. Your paychecks will not stretch that far.

A tax on every mile you drive. GPS tracking and recording every mile you drive. There ought to be a law.