As opposed to elected GA Rep. Paul Broun explicitly stating that evolution is 'Lies from the pit of hell'? Or Todd Akin? Or Richard Mourdock? For bonus points, go check where these yahoo's are from. it's all south or deep red states. Very very very rarely do these type of nut jobs come from blue states.
The GOP have coddled the religious right wing nut jobs for decades. They don't get to divorce them now as never having been friends.
You need to listen to more of the people who are getting elected from the GOP. They ARE crazy fundamentalists. The older generation hid it a bit better but the new crop is wearing it on the sleeves and it's allowing the uneducated to believe they are more intelligent than they really are. And thanks to the internet they can live in there own bubble devoid of any actual facts they disagree with.
except that pretty much all the predictions made in the 80s and 90s are coming true...earlier than predicted. There is no 'debate' about man made climate change. it's real and it's happening. Keep screaming though, it helps rational people identify you as crazy.
Why would any company invest in climate research? The size you'd need limits your choice of companies pretty dramatically. Which of the major international corporations would be funding climate change that won't directly benefit them for quite literally decades?
Corporations don't pay for things that far in advance. Hell just look at pensions for their employees. Things they are legally *required* to provide and how often those pensions are underfunded. (Hint we have an entire GOVERNMENT organization to deal with exactly this problem...PBGC).
Haha. Seriously, good one. NOBODY drives the posted limit on interstates. Try it sometime and you'll be passed left and right. 5-9 mph over is likely the reasonable average.
Both your spedometer and the radar guns have margins of error and the cops simply aren't going to bother with a ticket that could be easily argued away and margins of error. Less the 5 mph over is simply never going to happen unless there are significantly extenuating circumstances. Certainly not as a primary offense.
It swung from strongly Dem to strongly GOP both times. In 2010 the GOP picked up 63 seats out of 427. 15% in one election is pretty significant by any measure.
Everyone has the right to vote. If you do something that expressly removes your right to vote, well that's on you and we're not terribly concerned with it. (and they can get those rights restored in most cases)
The number of people who've had their right to vote removed is massively dwarfed by the people who have it and don't exercise it.
VA just dropped their gas tax...of course they put a (much lower) sales tax in place of it.
It's perfectly reasonable to expect (and verify) that a tax gets switched to a new method of being calculated. Besides what Politician wouldn't LOVE to crow about lowering the cost of gas by 30 cents or more?
Yes, it just so happens that the more miles you drive, the more fuel you consume
So, yes you are paying by the mile. With the added benefit that big vehicles pay more because they do more damage to the road. So not only are you paying by the mile 'now', it's also adjusting for vehicle size and weight.
You're missing the point. Yes they want high resolution data, I'm saying specifically they don't NEED that to get what they get now. The odometer can give them everything they need to get accurate *enough* data to properly assign people's reasonable tax.
Smarter future = not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Sure it might make sense to a bean counter that we can place every car on every road and route the appropriate tax revenue to the district that road is in - just like it made sense once upon a time for business travelers to submit receipts for absolutely every expense and get reimbursed. Very detailed and you can prevent unauthorized expenses like strip clubs and such. And a whole lot of overhead for everybody.
Reality? Going to Tampa on a trip? Here's X dollars in Cost-Of-Travel assessment to spend how you like. Simpler and easier for everyone involved.
So there's an exception to construction vehicles that are never driven on public roads....why pray tell wouldn't that exact same exception exist under the new system?
Didn't say it was easy. Things worth keeping are 'hard'. But you clearly HAVE the power to change the system. Now get your ass outside and convince your neighbors likewise. It's how the 'process' works.
First, SC legislature decreed that stations were charging people too much money and made the price $3 bucks. The stations had to pay more than that for the sticker. Hence they stopped doing the inspections.
When I moved there, I was fairly amazed as I watched the mechanic tick off every check box on my inspection form right at the counter. Never even went out to the car. Now occasionally the state would check, and they'd fail some station and word went out fast. Inspections were failed and told "just come back tomorrow" and guess what? Tomorrow, same car, no work, but no state inspectors checking, passed with flying colors.
Fast forward a few years and the same 'brilliant' legislature figures out the the inspections aren't helping anything and so abolished them.
the gas tax is going away as cars get more efficient. Yes yes, raise the tax you say and you can make it up.
What about non-gas cars? Used to be so niche a segment as to not matter but very quickly it's going to be a significant portion.
Plan ahead and make it a 'use' tax (and frankly I had use taxes, terribly regressive). Maybe have a minimum free usage of say 20k miles; tax anything over that.
The gas tax is nothing but a crude tax on miles driven coupled by vehicle weight. Big vehicles usually get lower mileage and do more damage...hence they pay a higher tax than a motorcycle which gets 10x the mileage of a semi.
The odometer combined with vehicle registration is all we need to accomplish this. No privacy implications at all.
The Revolutionary War was not fought over taxes, it was fought over not having a say in the drafting of the laws to applying the tax. I.e. taxation without representation. Notice they don't care about the taxation itself, that's fine. Just give us the representation in crafting the tax law.
BR
And every single citizen in the US (except DC) has that representation.
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sorry, bad figure of speech ;-) 'passed left and right' I *meant* 'passed a LOT'
As opposed to elected GA Rep. Paul Broun explicitly stating that evolution is 'Lies from the pit of hell'? Or Todd Akin? Or Richard Mourdock? For bonus points, go check where these yahoo's are from. it's all south or deep red states. Very very very rarely do these type of nut jobs come from blue states.
The GOP have coddled the religious right wing nut jobs for decades. They don't get to divorce them now as never having been friends.
You need to listen to more of the people who are getting elected from the GOP. They ARE crazy fundamentalists. The older generation hid it a bit better but the new crop is wearing it on the sleeves and it's allowing the uneducated to believe they are more intelligent than they really are. And thanks to the internet they can live in there own bubble devoid of any actual facts they disagree with.
except that pretty much all the predictions made in the 80s and 90s are coming true...earlier than predicted. There is no 'debate' about man made climate change. it's real and it's happening. Keep screaming though, it helps rational people identify you as crazy.
Why would any company invest in climate research? The size you'd need limits your choice of companies pretty dramatically. Which of the major international corporations would be funding climate change that won't directly benefit them for quite literally decades?
Corporations don't pay for things that far in advance. Hell just look at pensions for their employees. Things they are legally *required* to provide and how often those pensions are underfunded. (Hint we have an entire GOVERNMENT organization to deal with exactly this problem...PBGC).
Haha. Seriously, good one. NOBODY drives the posted limit on interstates. Try it sometime and you'll be passed left and right. 5-9 mph over is likely the reasonable average.
Both your spedometer and the radar guns have margins of error and the cops simply aren't going to bother with a ticket that could be easily argued away and margins of error. Less the 5 mph over is simply never going to happen unless there are significantly extenuating circumstances. Certainly not as a primary offense.
I'm pretty sure NO ONE is ever going to source her a story again, so that new line of work is coming sooner rather than later...
See above AC comment about Deep Throat. Don't write down *anything* you don't want taken. Period.
If that doesn't, what would you say would be such a change?
It swung from strongly Dem to strongly GOP both times. In 2010 the GOP picked up 63 seats out of 427. 15% in one election is pretty significant by any measure.
You just can't fire people for no reason (well, you're not supposed to.)
depends on the State, I believe in VA it's quite easy to say "Hey it's Thursday, you're fired"
Um, explain 1994 and 2010? Massive shifts in representation. It's possible.
Everyone has the right to vote. If you do something that expressly removes your right to vote, well that's on you and we're not terribly concerned with it. (and they can get those rights restored in most cases)
The number of people who've had their right to vote removed is massively dwarfed by the people who have it and don't exercise it.
That is the whole point of the GPS tracker ... to prove you actually drove on private roads or farmland.
Read the article. It's expressly to 'replace' the gas tax, so they want everybody to have one.
VA just dropped their gas tax...of course they put a (much lower) sales tax in place of it.
It's perfectly reasonable to expect (and verify) that a tax gets switched to a new method of being calculated. Besides what Politician wouldn't LOVE to crow about lowering the cost of gas by 30 cents or more?
You're not paying by the mile.
Yes, it just so happens that the more miles you drive, the more fuel you consume
So, yes you are paying by the mile. With the added benefit that big vehicles pay more because they do more damage to the road. So not only are you paying by the mile 'now', it's also adjusting for vehicle size and weight.
Odometer + type of vehicle covers that exactly.
You're missing the point. Yes they want high resolution data, I'm saying specifically they don't NEED that to get what they get now. The odometer can give them everything they need to get accurate *enough* data to properly assign people's reasonable tax.
Smarter future = not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Sure it might make sense to a bean counter that we can place every car on every road and route the appropriate tax revenue to the district that road is in - just like it made sense once upon a time for business travelers to submit receipts for absolutely every expense and get reimbursed. Very detailed and you can prevent unauthorized expenses like strip clubs and such. And a whole lot of overhead for everybody.
Reality? Going to Tampa on a trip? Here's X dollars in Cost-Of-Travel assessment to spend how you like. Simpler and easier for everyone involved.
So there's an exception to construction vehicles that are never driven on public roads....why pray tell wouldn't that exact same exception exist under the new system?
Are we looking at a polluted system? Sure, but the fundamentals are still in tact and is inherently fixable with proper participation.
That last bit is probably the hardest though.
Didn't say it was easy. Things worth keeping are 'hard'. But you clearly HAVE the power to change the system. Now get your ass outside and convince your neighbors likewise. It's how the 'process' works.
Private roads. You know what? the gas tax still applies to those too. So no difference.
What's your point? You're already paying the gas tax for those miles now. No difference.
SC got rid of them in classic stupid fashion.
First, SC legislature decreed that stations were charging people too much money and made the price $3 bucks. The stations had to pay more than that for the sticker. Hence they stopped doing the inspections.
When I moved there, I was fairly amazed as I watched the mechanic tick off every check box on my inspection form right at the counter. Never even went out to the car. Now occasionally the state would check, and they'd fail some station and word went out fast. Inspections were failed and told "just come back tomorrow" and guess what? Tomorrow, same car, no work, but no state inspectors checking, passed with flying colors.
Fast forward a few years and the same 'brilliant' legislature figures out the the inspections aren't helping anything and so abolished them.
Stupid breeds down there, believe me.
the gas tax is going away as cars get more efficient. Yes yes, raise the tax you say and you can make it up.
What about non-gas cars? Used to be so niche a segment as to not matter but very quickly it's going to be a significant portion.
Plan ahead and make it a 'use' tax (and frankly I had use taxes, terribly regressive). Maybe have a minimum free usage of say 20k miles; tax anything over that.
The gas tax is nothing but a crude tax on miles driven coupled by vehicle weight. Big vehicles usually get lower mileage and do more damage...hence they pay a higher tax than a motorcycle which gets 10x the mileage of a semi.
The odometer combined with vehicle registration is all we need to accomplish this. No privacy implications at all.
please, we still have the vote.
The Revolutionary War was not fought over taxes, it was fought over not having a say in the drafting of the laws to applying the tax. I.e. taxation without representation. Notice they don't care about the taxation itself, that's fine. Just give us the representation in crafting the tax law.
BR And every single citizen in the US (except DC) has that representation.
Or when they pass a law saying you have to put one in.
Cool, already have one. It's called an ODOMETER :)