If the government taxes us by the mile, I’m just going to drive to work backwards and make the government pay me. Stupid government.
If the government taxes us by the mile, I’m just going to drive to work backwards and make the government pay me. Stupid government.
Well at least they won’t be incidentally continuously monitoring our whereabouts….
wait
If they start taxing us by the mile, I’m going metric.
If they start taxing us by the mile, I’m going postal.
If they start taxing us by the mile I’m going to Canada!! No, wait a minute, the’ve got worse taxes then us……never mind.
It’s another ploy to get people to move into the city. People who live in teh city=people who vote democrat.
If that’s true. I’ll be taking the damn bus to work.
If they start taxing us by the mile instead of by the gallon of gas, people who bought those little cars that run on AA batteries will sure be pissed.
I’m thinking it may be a very lucrative business to offer the service of disconnecting odometers.
Oh joy. Here in Oregon they’ve already started a pilot project like this in a couple areas. There’s a wireless device that talks to the fuel pump and transmits how far you’ve gone, as well as WHERE you’ve gone. That way they can sneak in “Congestion Pricing” and really nail you if you dare drive during rush hour. It is Big Brotherism in all its glory.
No doubt there’ll be hacks for it the next day, though, and we’ll all just download the latest mileage spoofer. But since Biden said paying taxes is patriotic, weasling out of taxes must be unpatriotic – so I guess I better start being nice to people just in case they end up in the jury when I’m charged with Unpatriotic Treasonous Tax Crimes Against The One
Frank, if you want to drive backwards I volunteer to be your tailgunner which would actually be like nosegunner if you’re going backwards. At least that’s what I’ll tell ussjc when he makes a tailgunner joke at my expense.
So, if I get the drift of the article correctly, they want to not only charge by the mile but charge more for being stuck in traffic. That means they would need to calculate ‘normal’ drive times for every road in the country. Seems like kind of a big project to me. There must be an easier way… hey wait, cabs have a device that calculates a fee based on distance AND time! Let’s make everybody drive cabs! That way, all cars would have these devices to make it easier for the government to collect the fees — AND people could offset the gas the extra gas fees by charging cab fare when they pick people up who run out of gas because they can’t afford the gas fees!
Man, these government types think of everything.
Then I’m traveling by horse. They can charge me by the pounds of dung which they’ll have to pick up and weigh.
Any GDrackafrackin Liberal that b*tched about us spying on terrorists who used our phone/Internet lines better STFU about that GD mileage tax/Big Brother spying…or apologize to Dubya. That’s all I’m sayin.
(Pardon my French folks; I’m just getting past-the-point-of-no-return-pissed at these arrogant race-baiting, money/power/gun/freedom-grabbing POS’s we now have in DC)
Revolution!
Impeach that bastard one. Anyone who even thinks of this is a kommie and should be shot on sight. How many leftist does it take to make a stack of dead bodies?
Actually, Canada under Harper is probably going to be a bit more conservative than us for the next few years. Not that they’re happy about it.
Hover cars –point A-to-B will be shorter so I’ll save on milage, and I can drop baggies full of dog s#*t (collected from the back yard) on cars with OBAMA 08 bumpetr stickers that are stuck in rush hour gridlock.
Hey, you people didn’t blink when they put GPS receivers in all cell phones so they could “tell where 911 calls came from.”
Bit by bit you are giving up you freedom. When will you start fighting?
[You want to remain anonymous when calling 911 for help? -Ed.]
“Actually, Canada under Harper is probably going to be a bit more conservative than us for the next few years. Not that they’re happy about it.”
Are you kidding? I’m overjoyed to be living in the World’s Last Refuge of Conservatism, A.K.A. Canada! The only ones who aren’t are a bunch of hippies in Toronto, and the French. But the French are never happy, so they don’t count.
I’m in Oregon and I’m pretty certain this is the way Kulongowski wants to go. I suspect that most of their gadgets will meet with tragic accidents. Outside of the whiners in Portland, most Oregonians are irritated by attempts to follow them.
LOL. The GPS receivers are in the phone and able to track all the time. What a maroon!
“I’m just going to drive to work backwards…”
Why not? Everything this administration wants to do is backwards anyway.
Hey Ed: note that it’s not me Anon Y. Mous is calling a maroon.
When most people make a 911 call, they provide, or are coaxed into providing, their name and location. The government, however, used the few instances where callers can’t or won’t do so as an excuse to mandate the installation of GPS receivers into all digital cell phones. As Mr. Mous says, the receivers are active all the time. This means that the cell phone carriers (and therefore the government) can tell where you are anytime you make any call, thanks to those receivers.