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Automotive News & Views Is a Higher Gasoline Tax Good Or Bad For America?
849 messages, Last post on Nov 19, 2009 at 2:22 PM
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 01, 2009 8:48 pm)  Then nothing is perfect.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 02, 2009 4:44 am) That's a great idea: base tax on number of people benefitting from being allowed to use a road in the car. Think how much tax we could collect and spend in DC. We could call it the "capital rally tax" since it's per capita. Most people would never catch on to how sneaky it is as a new tax because they'd be busy being impressed by the name, same as with "cap and trade." We could include pets in the chip implantation because we could say it's to help protect and care for the pets, and we can tax their use of roads as well for people who take their pets with them. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 02, 2009 4:44 am)  Digital Angel does talk about GPS and RFID herd management on their web page.
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 01, 2009 8:48 pm) Who would pay for retrofitting the existing fleet of vehicles? And if these were like Speedpass and not built-in (installation labor?) to the ECM or such for hundreds of different models, I could just sit this little transmitter on the shelf in the garage every other day?  I think gas-tax should stay collected at the gas pump, except those with electric vehicles would get charged a flat-fee each year. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 02, 2009 8:28 am) |
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Replying to: kernick (Jul 02, 2009 8:35 am) Big whoop, they could stick a Saturday night special in my face at the pump and fill up on my tab too. Does everyone stay up nights thinking up all these nightmare scenarios? No wonder parents won't let their kids walk to the bus stop - Freddy Krueger is on every corner. Sheesh. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 02, 2009 8:48 am) And lemko might tell you if the big business in Philly is still to cut the registration- stickers off the license-plates, to resell the stickers. I saw many cars in Philly that had guards over the license-plates. I don't want the RFID tag in my arm so much, as I want the cybernetic chain-gun attachment. 
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Replying to: kernick (Jul 02, 2009 11:17 am) Gagrice still sounds a bit paranoid about riding public transit though, even after killing his TV. 
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 02, 2009 8:48 am) I do not know a single parent that will let their children play in their front yard unattended. With 100 registered sex offenders per square mile and Ahnold wanting to let more loose it is far too risky. This is the sickest society since the end of the Roman Empire. With a GPS implant in the sex offenders it would be easier to track them 24/7.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 02, 2009 1:42 pm) |
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