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Fuel tax could be replaced with by-the-mile road tax
Steve Everly
Kansas City Star
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history. In its place you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove — tracked by a Global Positioning System device in your car and uploaded to a billing center.
What once was science fiction is being field-tested by the University of Iowa to iron out the wrinkles should a by-the-mile road tax ever be enacted.
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Besides the technological advances making such a tax possible, the idea is getting a hard push from a growing number of transportation experts and officials. That is because the traditional by-the-gallon fuel tax, struggling to keep up with road building and maintenance demands, could fall even farther behind as vehicles’ gas mileage rises and more alternative-fuel vehicles come on line.
The idea of shifting to a by-the-mile tax has been discussed for years, but it now appears to be getting more serious attention. A federal commission, after a two-year study, concluded earlier this year that the road tax was the “best path forward” to keep revenues flowing to highway and transportation projects, and could be an important new tool to help manage traffic and relieve congestion.
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July 1st, 2009 at 10:07 am
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July 1st, 2009 at 10:08 am
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July 1st, 2009 at 10:12 am
is there difference between that and an implant chip. oh ya absalutely no privacy because they can find you 24-7
July 1st, 2009 at 10:34 am
Replaced huh? I doubt it. That imply removing the gas tax which they will never do. What you’ll see is BOTH taxes applied.
Matzo Man Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:55 am
BOTH taxes PLUS they know where your car is so they can yank it from you for ANY reason
July 1st, 2009 at 10:44 am
Well… I suppose this is better than the gas tax, but why not just make it an all-toll-road system?
July 1st, 2009 at 12:40 pm
OK, this is planned for 2011 in the netherlands , this year 2009 a test will start in Amsterdam (voluntairy). Drivers who inlist for the field test of this GPS based tracking system , will get 100euro’s a month, but when driving in morning and evening trafic on major highways, there will be a deduction from that 100euros per driven kilometer. therefore stimulating the driver not to pass that highway at certain times/ take the train etc. Atleast that are the arguements.. Ok 2 MONTHS AGO HERE IN THE nTHERLANDS THE ” SMART ENERGY METER” WAS INTRODUCED every 15 minutes an update is sent to your energy provider.On September 21th 2009 , every man, woman and child(12y/o) will have to give their fingerprints when applying for a passport or id-card (mandatory)
Resist resist resist!!! dont let them treat you like a friggin crimanal in your own bloody counrty … !
WACHOLLAND !
dave Reply:
July 1st, 2009 at 12:44 pm
excuse my lame english grammer and spelling ^
No to NWO Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:19 am
No problem. I’m glad to see people from all over the world coming here to get the good news.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I wonder if we will be required to have this per mile tax if you own or drive an electric car? I know they say it is to “Replace” the fuel tax MY ASS) but when they consider how much will be lost when they “Replace” it they will inevitably stick with both. Looks like it’s time to buy a bicycle.
dave Reply:
July 1st, 2009 at 4:15 pm
ofcourse they will tax electric cars.. DOH, the fuel tax is used to maintain roads right?… we’ll just call it the roadtax then }:) (thats what they call it here in holland). Because even electric cars will bring a load to the road :S
Callie Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:33 am
They’ll just find a way to tax you while you use your bicycle. There’s one woman here in America that transformed her bicycle so that she could take three of her small children where ever they needed to go. Mark my word, bikes will get a mile tax (or other tax of some sort), and have to be licensed. Their excuse, “they use the roads too.”
July 1st, 2009 at 7:00 pm
I have an idea! Lets tell the gov idiots to go “FUCK OFF” and everyone have the balls to defend that statement!!
Graham Reply:
July 1st, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I applaud the sentiment, but it’ll never happen.
No to NWO Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:20 am
I have a feeling my GPS unit will be broken….
July 1st, 2009 at 7:24 pm
The fuel tax would remain.
How else would they collect the nickles and dimes from motorcycles, ATV’s, and don’t forget your lawnmower.
You know the greedy pricks want it all.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:27 am
thieves …oppps
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:14 am
THERE IS PLENTY OF MONEY–UNFORTUNATELY IT’S GOING DOWN THE RAT HOLES-IN IRAQ-AFGHANISTAN-KOREA(ALSO THE PHILIPPINE PROSTITUTE PIPELINE TO AMERIKA)-JAPAN GERMANY..AND MANY OTHER OCCUPIED NATIONS..
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:15 am
GRAHAM–YOU EITHER ARE PART OF THE SOLUTION ‘or’ PART OF THE PROBLEM….WHICH ARE YOU?
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:16 am
WHAT MAKES YOU FOOLS THINK(?) THEY WON’T ALSO TAX BICYCLES?
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:39 am
AMERIKAN SLAVEDOM….GET READY SHEEPLE—-FOR YOUR OWN IGNORANCE & ARROGANCE NOW YOUR CHILDREN & GRANDCHILDREN WILL PAY THE PRICE..DUH..
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:54 am
Thank you for your info DAVE…don’t worry about the grammar–WE ARE GETTING THE INFO OUT TO EDUCATE THE SHEEPLE…!
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:59 am
A glitch or I was censored or something. I’ll paraphrase what i remember:
Dave:
The Netherlands is becoming a den of thieves. They have the ‘broken window’ scheme
down good. They keep inventing ‘economies’ for the sake of keeping the over-population employed. People in the Netherlands are over-burdened to say the least.
And if you want to sit on your ass and never work again in nanny-state Netherlands do what my friend did. Drop into social services and tell them you are a pedophile and can’t work with people. He now sits on his ass playing video games ALL DAY…at the expense of the idiot citizens that have been duped into paying into this social services ponzi scheme…lol
Another friend did a similiar thing and grows/sells pot..no tax no nothing just profit.
Netherlands is so over-regulated everyone is in violation of something. And that everyone, is the point and the problem. It’s also that way to keep the idiot bureaucrats employed.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:06 am
It is in vain,sir,to extenuate the matter.Gentlemen may cry”Peace! Peace!”_ _but there is no peace.The war is actually begun!The next gale that sweeps from the north,will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!Our brethren are already in the field!Why stand we here idle?What is it that gentlemen wish?What would they have?Is life so dear,or peace so sweet,as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?Forbid it,Almighty God!I know not what course others may take;but as for me,give me LIBERTY or give me DEATH!
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July 2nd, 2009 at 11:03 am
Both taxes AND a GPS so they know where your car is and can take it from you for whatever reason? No thanks.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Dave: Some clarification: I think the Netherlands is a great country.
The people are down to earth and matter-of-fact and love to have a good time. I have dutch friends and they are exceptional people (minus the two scamming social services). What I don’t understand is how they can allow their lives to be smothered by so many regulations. In fact not one Dutch person I asked is proud of all the regulation…they loathe them. So again, why allow such things?
I mean there is a big difference from being tolerant, and getting walked over.
dave Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
yeah well, i used to agree with you.i was proud of holland, well.. i was cereinly was not ashamed of my country. That all quickly vanished when i woke up from lalaland in 2006, i soon started noticing the corruption and foul manipulation within the dutch governmental aparatus. The aid to USA in the iraq war, afghanistan where whe’re still! for so called “rebuilding” yea right…
Not to mention the friggin EU constitution that was rammed up our arses…
The fact that most people i talk to, and try to convince them to renew their passport before sept. 21e 2009 (when vingerprints in passport will be mandatory); the general answer is: well.. i have nothing to hide ..
Its that insincere cowardly naive thinking thats realy at the base of our so called tolerance.
Tolerance in the sence how we dutchmen are often caracterised, is just the failure to have balls, and telling the “other” they are pissing you off !
i’m ready to migrate
i hear the aboriginals now have sovereinity in vast parts of australia… /me ponders asking asylum/ 
stormcrow Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:43 pm
dave, you’re right. It’s exactly that kind of thinking that got us into this mess.
“if you have nothing to hide” Screw that. I have Rights.
We as a whole have to keep jammin it back down their throats.
It’s a daily attack on our Rights as Citizens of a Free Country.
These Pricks never take a day off. Neither can we.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
ITS TIME TO KILL SOMEBODY
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 pm
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