Naturally a goddamn Republican, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, in Obama’s Cabinet is proposing this abortion.
The 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.
The device would tally how much tax motorists owed depending upon their road use. Motorists would pay the amount owed when it was downloaded, probably at gas stations at first, but an alternative eventually would be needed.
Rob Atkinson, president of the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission, the agency that is developing future transportation funding options, said moving to a national VMT would take about a decade.
Privacy concerns are based more on perception than any actual risk, Atkinson said. The satellite information would be beamed one way to the car and driving information would be contained within the device on the car, with the amount of the tax due the only information that’s downloaded, he said. AP Interview: Transportation secretary says taxing how much we drive may replace gasoline tax — Newsday.com
How could this go wrong? After all, what’s wrong with the government knowing exactly where you drive at all times. Nah nothing wrong with that…shit, only a public school idiot or Ivy League fool would think there is nothing wrong with this idea. Waiting for the first shit for brains idiot to say "Well if you’re not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about"!
Well we can all feel better about it all after all a "BLUE RIBBON PANEL" is doing a study. Run for the fucking hills whenever you hear that bullshit phrase. It means that some government agency is getting ready to run roughshod over your money, rights and your very soul.
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