California Considers Tracking Your Car

dan_sdot writes "California's budget problem has led the state to consider desperate measures: taxing you based on how much you drive. The only problem is the way they propose to do it. California is now proposing to put GPS devices on all new cars to track how far people drive and tax them accordingly."

Comments

Re:Dont they already do this?

[mrchaotica]

So, they're going to start charging responsible people (i.e., Prius drivers) the same as rich assholes? Doesn't that strike anybody else as really really stupid, especially for California?

Easier ways?

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With any problem I always try to find the most resonable and the simplest way to handle it. Realiticlly wouldnt it be easier to just add this tax onto the sale of gas? I mean christ your not going to be driving anywhere unless you buy gas, and Im willing to bet most people will not be jumping accross the cali border just to get gas. The only reason I can think of why they wouldnt want to do this is the fact people would realize how much extra they are paying to drive, and start driving less and less as this tax goes up, so they only way to milk consumers money is through an illusion of a tax they pay each year. Or theirs other reasons as to why they would want to track cars, and im willing to bet the "driving tax" is the only way they can get a revenue stream for these other reasons.