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California Wants GPS Tracking Device in Every Car
HTS Member writes "California has a new excuse for more taxes. Claiming losses due to fuel-efficient cars, such as Gasoline/Electric Hybrids, California is cooking-up a new system to punish people who aren't using enough gasoline. They want to tax commuters by the mile. How would this be accomplished? By requiring everyone to install a GPS device in their vehicle, and charge them their "taxes" every time they fuel-up. From the article: 'Drivers will get charged for how many miles they use the roads, and it's as simple as that.. [a] team at Oregon State University equipped a test car with a global positioning device to keep track of its mileage. Eventually, every car would need one.'"
Most dipshit Americans do not even know what progressive taxation really is. Hell, I really did not know what it meant until I got on the Internet when I was in my late 30s. And I have tested genius IQ on more than one standardized test. So, I think we can assume that not too many Americans (or Californians) really realize what is going on with the destruction of our progressive tax base.
eat shiat and bark at the moon
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Arnold and the Republicans raise a tax? Not likely. They'll simply borrow more billions and declare victory while the state goes all the way into the dumpster.
Reelect Arnold, you 'Fornians... good job playing Rove's game of ousting the ONE guy who told the truth about Enron's robbery, while installing Ken Lay's buddy. Blame the guy who told the truth, install the liar.
Oh, and good job helping Rove kick out your Secretary of State. A good Republican is taking his place. Say goodbye to proper recounts, say hello to untrackable voting machines.
You're going bankrupt while they're looting you blind. The interest alone on that loan Arnie purchased to cover up the tax deficit is going to destroy public works.
Let's not talk about your property tax caps and the subsequent death of your school system. Tho it might explain why the public can't do budget math nowadays.
It was such a wonderful state once.
Alcoholics generally have a lot of hidden anger. They see things in an angry, adversarial way. For example: Bush Wanted To Invade Iraq If Elected in 2000.
One thing was accomplished in Iraq. The oil profits that went to Saddam Hussein before now go to associates of Bush and Cheney in the United States and Britain. That's a huge conflict of interest.
The point of my comment is that there is a wide-ranging lack of attention to politics on the part of the people in the United States. The people are not doing their job effectively. If they were, small things like the subject of this Slashdot story could not have happened, and big things like killing Iraqis for oil profits could not have happened, either.