Massachusetts may consider a mileage charge

the first chips are installed in every politician's car. And all the info be placed on the net. Let's track all govt vehicles next - we are taxpayer and they are supposed to be working for us. It will be amusing to see if those vehicles are at food stores or shopping malls or used for vacations. If they are used for that - that should be reportable income tax benefits to the depts of revenue. I remember the outrage when a former governor used the state police helicopter for a trip for a sick child.
The state just voted to keep the state tax. Within a few weeks we were all informed the state highway dept was in dire need of more money. Odds are gas tax is going up. Oh its not determined but latest projections are 20-30 cents per gallon. There is also a proposal to double tolls. My question is... what has been happening to the gas taxes we pay to the fed and state for all of these years? Has it been swallowed into the general budget?
The highest rising costs are benefits to current employees and retirees. No one wants to tell us that. The solution in the liberal mind for every problem is to spend more money and increase taxes (or create deficits for future generations to deal with).
This RFID thing is big brother watching everyone.
It was a small group of people pissed off in the 1700's that tossed that tea into the ocean. If our forefathers saw what is happening today - man, would they be wild. Maybe the way to beat this proposal down is to force them to do what I wrote in the first paragraph. Let's see where every govt employee is.
Lastly - how many more govt jobs would this proposal create? This is also about more govt employees and more Dem votes to keep the same system. FWIW - I have heard that govt retirees do not pay income taxes on their retirements. If this is true - how can that happen at a time when the state is in need of additional funds? Its counter productive for the liberals.

what do the two have in common? Insanity.

Talk about idiotic half-baked proposals.

First off, there just aren't enough electric cars to justify this method tax. Secondly, they certainly wouldn't be providing any incentive, or would be negating other incentives, for people to switch to alternate fuels.

In addition, who's to say these douchebags wouldn't go the next step and embed a tracking circuit in the same chip?

No. Never. This idea is unacceptable. There must be a better, less intrusive way to fund road maintenance that doesn't smack of Orwell's 1984.

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” -- John Quincy Adams

he { the governor of Mass} and Obama are best of buddies. and I bet there is more behind this plan

People would just figure out how to remove said chips. It is a stupid idea.

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No surprise. Taxation is growing everywhere. Massachusetts and pretty close to socialist as it is, and New York is trying to add over 100 new taxes.

Man, I am glad I moved off the mainland. The islands are poor, but thank God the government is so inept they couldn't pass a tax if they wanted to.

...in liberal "brain dead" areas like (don't pump your own gas) Oregon or Massachusetts.

But, being considered in Idaho? Oh, hell no!
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addressed like the concerns of people about the cameras on toll plazas that were used to provide evidence in at least one criminal trial that I know of. We were assured any data would be confidential, etc, etc.
These people need to take a long walk off a short pier.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants

And I'm sure our ever so good at anything but building decent cars countrymen in Detroit, and their Taxachusetts union cronies have had nothing to do with a rule charging the same 'road wear' tax per mile on a Honda Fit as on a Cadillac Escalade....

I'm generally for replacing arbitrary taxes with usage based fees, but to work without distortion, such schemes have to track usage properly.

I'm just looking forward to a time when all these usage taxes, in combination with smaller budgets for police officers, leads to the establishment of more well oiled smuggling networks. Heck, sooner or later everyone will be a crook here too, like in some of the former Soviet republics. At least then, people will have a more proper assessment of what the government really is; nothing but a bunch of worthless crooks and thieves.

The state would have to set up buy monitoring equipment, pay someone to run the equipment. as the economy enters a depression does the people or the state have the money to set this up? Besides being under the watchful eye of big brother.

Remove all taxes, auction off all public assets and charge a use fee at the risk free interest rate on the in place liquidation value of artificial property rights. Artificial property rights are those beyond natural property rights. Natural property rights are self-ownership AND homestead (shelter and survival territory).

Land is a natural right.

The thieves who propose that bill probably drive Hummers and own stock in the GPS companies. People who drive 35 horse power Kias are not going to be amused.

Maybe we need to have a minimum brain useage tax. If our brain isnt being used so much then you are taxed for it. WAIT A MINUTE ! That would mean that we would have to over tax ninty nine percent of our government. All three branches.
So, we have chips installed in cars as well as our bodies because our government is here to help. Is that right?
People, I think the elitist are trying to pick a fight. Well, they allready passed the picking line. We need to give them a upper cut and a kick in the nadsters.
Unconstitutional. Since those in this article are for cheaper, quicker and simpler. Let's get rid of his position.That would be cheaper, simpler and quicker. Throw him out and get some one who knows and understands what the job of a public servant is.

The more they overreach, the more people wake up and start to resist. And I think that's our best shot, in the end: mass civil disobedience.

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who drive miles on farmland checking cattle, fences and crops. So that farmer will be charged for driving out in his field? Then the idea of knowing big brother knows where you have been, even if you have nothing to hide it an intrusion of privacy.