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Simple. This allows the state to charge BOTH gas taxes and GPS mileage taxes. No one is proposing the gas tax be eliminated, or promising that it won't be rai

by tc 18y ago

Simple. This allows the state to charge BOTH gas taxes and GPS mileage taxes. No one is proposing the gas tax be eliminated, or promising that it won't be raised in the future. Asking for the 'defect' in the current system is like asking the question of why we need sales taxes, property taxes, inheritance taxes, gas taxes, tariffs, telecom taxes, corporate taxes, sin taxes, license fees, alternative minimum taxes, and capital gains taxes when we already have personal income taxes. The fact is that we never need another tax; we already have plenty enough. But the more places that you insert the taxman, the more total revenue you can extract without people noticing and raising a fuss (cf. VAT). "L'art de l'imposition consiste à plumer l'oie pour obtenir le plus possible de plumes avec le moins possible de cris." ("The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.") Jean-Baptiste Colbert

GrandMasterBirt 18y ago
This is perhaps where the truth is. As long as we can tax a little bit from many places people won't complain as if we tax a lot from one place. The problem with the GPS tax is that the Government knows where you are all the time. I don't feel that big brother will only do good with that information. The problem with gas tax: They want the revenue but as electric cars become a more and more realized potential, you can't tax solar power! However in the great state of... well anywhere mid-west... EVERYONE needs to use the road. Either it is by car or by bus. How the hell do you get around in that state? You can't walk to work if work is 15 miles away! So make a larger income tax that will tax everyone for roads. Because EVERYONE needs them, so it does not matter who pays, everyone will, and more fuel efficient cars = less gas tax. Then again the post I am replying to states correctly, tax too much people complain, tax too little people complain to lack of services. Taxation is an art form and apparently we don't have good artists at the moment.

by tc 18y ago

GrandMasterBirt 18y ago

This is perhaps where the truth is. As long as we can tax a little bit from many places people won't complain as if we tax a lot from one place. The problem with the GPS tax is that the Government knows where you are all the time. I don't feel that big brother will only do good with that information. The problem with gas tax: They want the revenue but as electric cars become a more and more realized potential, you can't tax solar power! However in the great state of... well anywhere mid-west... EVERYONE needs to use the road. Either it is by car or by bus. How the hell do you get around in that state? You can't walk to work if work is 15 miles away! So make a larger income tax that will tax everyone for roads. Because EVERYONE needs them, so it does not matter who pays, everyone will, and more fuel efficient cars = less gas tax. Then again the post I am replying to states correctly, tax too much people complain, tax too little people complain to lack of services. Taxation is an art form and apparently we don't have good artists at the moment.