« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.  (Read 1641 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline DLR Pyro

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9234
  • Reputation: +1418/-29
I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« on: March 25, 2011, 02:47:39 PM »
Quote
CBO: Taxing mileage a 'practical option' for revenue enhancement
By Pete Kasperowicz - 03/24/11 04:17 PM ET
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released a report that said taxing people based on how many miles they drive is a possible option for raising new revenues and that these taxes could be used to offset the costs of highway maintenance at a time when federal funds are short.

The report discussed the proposal in great detail, including the development of technology that would allow total vehicle miles traveled (VMT) to be tracked, reported and taxed, as well as the pros and cons of mandating the installation of this technology in all vehicles.
  source

ENOUGH with the ****ing taxing schemes.  STOP SPENDING like a drunken sailor at a whorehouse....
Logged
Biden is an illegitimate President.  Change my mind.

Police lives matter.

Basking in the glow of my white privilege

ProudDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-09-11 08:50 PM
64.I'd almost be willing to get a job in order to participate in
A NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE   https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4763020

Offline Texacon

  • Super
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12311
  • Reputation: +1250/-55
  • All The Way!
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2011, 02:49:16 PM »
Uh, yeah.  I think that could do it.

KC
Logged
  Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day.  Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

*Stolen

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58696
  • Reputation: +3070/-173
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2011, 02:50:39 PM »
How much does anyone want to bet this would be in addition to the gasoline tax, and not simply a replacement for it?
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline DefiantSix

  • Set Condition One throughout the ship
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17474
  • Reputation: +1728/-189
  • Captain, IKV Defiant
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2011, 02:54:25 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on March 25, 2011, 02:50:39 PM
How much does anyone want to bet this would be in addition to the gasoline tax, and not simply a replacement for it?

No bet.  I have to save that money for my mileage taxes.  :banghead:
Logged
"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
-- Capt. John Parker
"I'm not looking for forgiveness, and I'm way past asking permission"
-- Capt. Steve Rogers
"In this present crisis, government in not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem."
-- Ronaldus Magnus

Offline Evil_Conservative

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7845
  • Reputation: +553/-194
  • Oh snap!
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2011, 03:05:43 PM »
Nevada wanted to impose a tax similar to this.  If they use a GPS type of system to track the miles, it can be easily disabled.  If they impose this VMT requirement, I will no longer be a car owner in the eyes of the government.
Logged
You may call me Jessica or Jess.

Offline DLR Pyro

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9234
  • Reputation: +1418/-29
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2011, 03:12:39 PM »
Quote from: Evil_Conservative on March 25, 2011, 03:05:43 PM
Nevada wanted to impose a tax similar to this.  If they use a GPS type of system to track the miles, it can be easily disabled.  If they impose this VMT requirement, I will no longer be a car owner in the eyes of the government.
Yes, I will become an undocumented car owner if this goes thru.
Logged
Biden is an illegitimate President.  Change my mind.

Police lives matter.

Basking in the glow of my white privilege

ProudDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-09-11 08:50 PM
64.I'd almost be willing to get a job in order to participate in
A NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE   https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4763020

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1997/-134
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2011, 03:17:48 PM »
Quote from: DLR Pyro on March 25, 2011, 03:12:39 PM
Yes, I will become an undocumented car owner if this goes thru.

Then you're going to be a DEMOCRAT.

Do you really think democrat voters are going to pay this tax? Hell, they don't pay the ones we have now.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline Evil_Conservative

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7845
  • Reputation: +553/-194
  • Oh snap!
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2011, 03:25:18 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on March 25, 2011, 03:17:48 PM
Then you're going to be a DEMOCRAT.

Do you really think democrat voters are going to pay this tax? Hell, they don't pay the ones we have now.

But don't you think enough is enough?  We pay so much for our vehicles.  And I get it, driving is a privilege.  We pay taxes to register our cars, emissions, and gas.  And now they want to tax us to drive to work?  Give us a break.  But, if the government passes this and gets cars off the road, it will be a win to them... less eeeeeeeeeevil pollution.  ::)

It's just irritating.
Logged
You may call me Jessica or Jess.

Offline korporal_krakrs

  • Probationary (Probie)
  • Posts: 39
  • Reputation: +9/-3
  • Is it Friday yet?
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2011, 03:36:20 PM »
Another strike against good ideas to solve our problems.  The only solution, and it's crystal clear, is to stop spending so much.  That's IT!  It's going to get to the point where it makes more economic sense to just sit at home and do nothing all day. 

...Of course you can't own property without paying taxes, so I guess we'll have to be nomadic.  They'll probably devise a walking tax at that point.
Logged
Back to the pipe...   :stoner:

Offline FreeBorn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2772
  • Reputation: +251/-45
  • Semper Fidelis
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2011, 03:52:39 PM »
If they are so bent on stirring things up with taxes how about this then- Go ahead and legalize marijuana like they've been whining for for years, heavily penalize illegal production, distribution, etc. and tax it at rates akin to what we have on gasoline and cigarettes.

That just might spark a revolution, no?
Logged


"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin; And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." ~Ronald Reagan

Offline seahorse513

  • I don't take shit from anyone!!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5260
  • Reputation: +491/-247
  • British by birth, American thru naturalization
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2011, 05:00:59 PM »
dang, i have a hard time with the taxes i pay now................ :hammer: I drive approx 25 miles to work now. Now and then I go see my parents /and or my sister... I stopped going down, because of the price of gas. I have two options, move closer to work(preferable) or transfer to a closer store...which is hard because some Walmarts don't accept transfers....
Logged
The sea is treacherous, but an even hand on the keel brings it safely to port.

Nothing is sexier than a man and his gun!!!

A man should prefer his own company to that of others, because no matter where he goes,he'll find himself there..

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money".  Lady Maggie Thatcher

Offline Boudicca

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5162
  • Reputation: +413/-61
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2011, 05:49:25 PM »
What utter horseshit.  So now libs would like to penalize the working poor?  Those are the folks driving many miles a day to commute to jobs where they perform a myriad of low wage service jobs for affluent neighborhoods/cities/resorts, etc.  No one could seriously believe the poor can afford to live in Sun Valley, ID, for example, yet this miles tax would penalize them for working. :argh:
Logged
Sneaking into a country doesn't make you an immigrant any
more than breaking into someone's house makes you part of the family.
(Poster bolky from thehill.com blog discussion)

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2222/-127
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2011, 07:10:42 PM »
A side effect that is desired by the leftists , is to get more people to move into cities and to reverse white flight.  Also their cherished welfare class that don't own cars won't be hit nor will public transportation , is my guess.
Logged

Offline RightCoast

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3438
  • Reputation: +185/-24
  • Semper Fi means more than most will ever know
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2011, 08:47:04 PM »
Cars = freedom, the people that control this government don't want us to have freedom. Taxing miles means they can further restrict freedom. GPS in your car to see how far you go and where you go.  I f*cking deduct my miles now for work, so I get a double tax: lose the deduction and pay by the mile.
Logged
nine eleven is a car
nine one one is an emergency service
September 11, 2001 was an attack
Never Forget, or Minimize.

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1278/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2011, 08:09:25 AM »
This proposal is so much horseshit it wouldn't even get out of committee, let alone survive even the most basic challenge.  I can see this getting struck down on 1st and 4th Amendment issues right off the bat.
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

Offline namvet

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1321
  • Reputation: +104/-78
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2011, 08:42:27 AM »
Quote from: DLR Pyro on March 25, 2011, 02:47:39 PM
  source

ENOUGH with the ****ing taxing schemes.  STOP SPENDING like a drunken sailor at a whorehouse....

Quote
STOP SPENDING like a drunken sailor at a whorehouse....

I resemble that remark. hic !!
Logged

"THERE ARE NO GREAT MEN. THERE ARE ONLY GREAT CHALLENGES THAT ORDINARY MEN ARE FORCED BY CIRCUMSTANCES TO MEET" - ADM WILLIAM F HALSEY

Offline namvet

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1321
  • Reputation: +104/-78
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #16 on: March 26, 2011, 08:57:44 AM »
they want you to buy from gov motors

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAqPMJFaEdY[/youtube]

up next a tax for the air you breath and an accurate count of turds left in the stool
Logged

"THERE ARE NO GREAT MEN. THERE ARE ONLY GREAT CHALLENGES THAT ORDINARY MEN ARE FORCED BY CIRCUMSTANCES TO MEET" - ADM WILLIAM F HALSEY

Offline DumbAss Tanker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 28493
  • Reputation: +1707/-151
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2011, 02:52:25 PM »
Except for some few Democrats in densely-urbanized parts of the Northeast with low car ownership, anyone who votes for this would be out on his or her ass at the next election.
Logged
Go and tell the Spartans, O traveler passing by
That here, obedient to their law, we lie.

Anything worth shooting once is worth shooting at least twice.

Offline DLR Pyro

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9234
  • Reputation: +1418/-29
Re: I'm pretty sure this might be the spark to start the revolution.
« Reply #18 on: March 26, 2011, 03:25:43 PM »
Quote from: namvet on March 26, 2011, 08:42:27 AM
I resemble that remark. hic !!
As long as its your money you are spending in the whorehouse, then party on...
Logged
Biden is an illegitimate President.  Change my mind.

Police lives matter.

Basking in the glow of my white privilege

ProudDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-09-11 08:50 PM
64.I'd almost be willing to get a job in order to participate in
A NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE   https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4763020
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »