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More on Oregon and GPS-tracked Gas Taxes
An anonymous reader writes "Wired has an update on Oregon's proposed replacement for their gas tax. Currently two candidates are in development, the first a GPS based system that tracks where a car goes to determine the number of miles driven. The other is a odometer-like device. Both would transmit the data to base stations periodically to determine the tax on a vehicle. There was a previous slashdot article."
I'd gladly mount the thing inside of a cast-iron safe with an extra layer of Mu-metal to make sure it's safe from any "damage" or "tampering".
If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance -- Derek Bok, president of Harvard
The look on driver's face when whacked with insurance surcharges for all of the above: Priceless
Lay um [sic] off, change hiring practices, or whatever just quit trying to raise my damned taxes.
I think your post proves that we need to raise taxes so we can afford better education...
Just make an aluminum-foil hat for your car. Seems easy enough to me. :-)
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Giving our government proper funding is bad for the economy!
It's overfunding that's the problem. Giving money to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to an adolescent.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Just wrap your GPS in aluminium foil.
Not quite. The adolescent tends to stop when he wraps his first two or three cars around trees.
.. that we attach GPS devices to politicians and their aids. Now, whenever they're both off the capitol grounds and together for more than say 5 minutes, an alarm goes off at the nearest TV news reporters desk.
Of course, privacy wouldn't be an issue. Why? Because I just said so!
In Oregon, it is not at all uncommon for a town to consist of a store whose owner is the postmaster, the sherrif, and the gas station attendant.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
There's an old joke that when a baby is born in Oregon the doctor whispers "no sales tax, no self serve gas" in the newborn's ear before handing the child to the mother.
[Set Cain on fire and steal his lute.]
So if you try to pump your own gas, he tickets you, and then if you can't pay right away goes postal?