Yet another great rant exposing the idiocy of our liberal friends...

Thanks, Tracey! Glad to see you visiting!

PuterPrsn

Yep, they want to register and have proofs for everything in sight EXCEPT voters - them they want to register with no checks and balances whatsoever.

cardgame

here is why this is more than it seems. The argument is we need a GPS to tell how "far" you have driven then tax you against that. Well why is a GPS needed for that? Do they need the accuracy? The intent is milage. I don't know if people understand this but there is this thing in the car today called an odometer. It reads milages VERY ACCURATELY without the need to know WHERE. So if the intent is to get the milage and then tax against it, it would be reasonable (understand I don't believe this plan to be close to reasonable) to assume that the odometer reading foots the bill. Considering there is communication technology like WiFi, WiMax, and Radio that can transmit a small signal of the odometer read and VIN number, I ask again why you NEED a GPS? Because there is more to the story and this is why the American people should take it for what it is and storm the legislature.

tasine

The steps these liberal high-rollers will go to in order to steal more of our money are boundless. I think they are all sociopaths who cannot understand shame. And their people who castigated President Bush for the phone bugging of suspected terrorists will accept this with open arms, thereby giving the lie to their reasons for bashing him. Remember Prohibition? Stopped legal sale of liquer - moonshining shot up like a beanstalk. Booze got sold and drunk anyway - it stripped the Treasury of it's tax though. Remember when the government mandated this piece of whatever it was that was supposed to suppress the smog emitted? People were disconnecting them left and right. It didn't stop the smog. Oh, they'll spend millions of our dollars to get this GPS thing going - and it will fail like every other Democrat planned program. The public is too ingenious for government types to mess seriously with.

The GPS thing is because they want to charge you MORE for using certain roads at certain times. So if you are foolish enough to go to work during working hours, using a road your tax dollars already paid for, you will pay a premium.

pacerx

Don't drive on the public roads then. Problem solved.

jwoulf

The dems have wanted a nanny state and to take away our guns for a long time, this is not news, but still needs to be told to everyone who will listen.

RomeroWasRight

Our government - and I'm talking Democrats and Republicans - the government as a whole - is moving toward a malevolent totalitarian regime.

The government of the most powerful, wealthy, free nation the world has every known is moving toward taking freedom off the table for the sake of its power and wealth.

The people MUST rise up and be willing to risk much or even all, or we will go the way of history.

Kevin,
I think we need to invent a GPS tracker for the Libs, and when they cross into red states, they get taxed.

We as Conservatives are going to have to do more PROP 8 style law making and get these namby pamby government reps off our backs.

Great post, Kevin. Love the blog.

FYI - this is currently being pushed in the North Carolina legislature too.

http://janeqrepublican.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/north-carolina-mileage-proposed-mileage-tax-nanny-state-tarheel-style/

It's liberal crap at its finest.

Here's to Big Brother.

AmericanTheatre - Fricking hysterical comment, and a GREAT idea!

JaneQ, I knew NC was included, but the article didn't mention them. Fact is, it is being considered in ALL lib states!

Thanks for the visit and the comment!

Kevin, this kind of thing makes me FURIOUS! They tax you 'for your own good' to pay for your roads and to limit your use of the product that is bad for the 'globe'... then, when you reward their guidance by using less, they declare an emergency and find SOME OTHER WAY to tax you.. even though you're DOING WHAT THEY WANTED!

In life, all of us must at some point find a way to get by with less. It happens to everyone.

Except government, who NEVER has to get by with less. They never even CONSIDER it. When tax revenues go down, they simply get their butts busy finding another way to tax you. YOU have to get by with less, but not THEM.

I wish I could type the words going through my head, but this is a family blog. :-)

Big Dave, in Dallas

... and of course, when people genuinely start limiting their driving because of this NEW tax, well what do you think is going to happen?

Yep, a new tax on 'not driving'.

Whatever it takes, they will NOT get by with less. And in the process of making sure they always get their cash, they will not HESITATE to RUIN OUR LIVES.

Dave again

lccat

The Dems. do not object to "Big Brother" as long as they are the Big Brother.

Dave, such is the lunacy of liberalism. Their outcomes have no accountability, except that they "get theirs". And by "they", I mean the elite amongst them, because they will frag their minions for the elitists!

Very nice piece indeed.

This is simply the tip of the iceberg and any movement in this matter (ie taxing mileage) will simply be copied state by state if it prevails. Call if the prevailing winds of taxation if you will.

What will our leftists governments do if we ever engineer ourselves out of oil completely and enter into the realms of the preferred green energy options held by the libs? I surmise that by then, they will have cap and trade, mileage taxation, and a litany of other taxes in place to offset the gasoline tax by 1000%.

Liberalism is a front for a mind altering agenda held by democrats these days. You have to hand it to them though...how democrats successully convince droves of logical minds into illogical, liberal lunacy is a monumental task indeed. Glad I stumbled upon your thoughts.

Outside - Thanks for the visit. I hadn't seen you on my comments before. I agree with your comments for sure! Visit often my friend!

averageJo34

What?!?! An article criticizing the Democrats on the front page of Digg? That's just crazy talk...

AverageJoe34 - Wow, I made the front page of the organization that banned me. Thanks for the shout from "an unnamed person"!

jraymilton

I'd say BOTH parties are far too Orwellian & statist these days. I wish I believed Obama will be different, but given his Senatorial voting record on privacy issues I'm dubious. Of course, it will be hard for him to be any worse than Bush on financial privacy, but questioning that involves questioning both parties' holy tax & spend drug war, a major source of their corruption-money (as proved by Cocaine-Contra in the '80s and Afghan heroin today).

I actually read about this a few years go when California (surprise!) was, and probably still is, thinking about this same thing. I hate the idea of being tracked, but when you think about it, if you carry a cell phone, it's already happening. Watch any cop show (CSI, Law & Order, etc) and what's one of the first things they do when looking for someone? Check their cell phone records.

Welcome to the Nanny State.

@Vince - But I can turn my cell phone off. Lojack will work all the time.

Add North Carolina to the list of states that are/have considered a mileage tax. (allegedly ILO the current gas tax. - Bet me!)

Once again you have shined a much needed light on the latest schemes of the left, nothing like "newspeak" to cover up the leftists true intentions, because that's how your hardcore pinko operates.

The government wants people and businesses to spend money for economic recovery but they keep threatening higher taxes. How they they miss the link between taxation and disposable income/spending?

Laura Hazen

In the spirit of failures with government, I will leave you with a few quotes from Milton Friedman.

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand"

"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."

"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."

"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government"

and finally one of my favorite quotes that gives me hope is from a lecture in 1991:

"The United States today is more than 50% socialist in terms of the fraction of our resources that are controlled by the government. Fortunately, socialism is so inefficient that it does not control 50% of our lives. Fortunately, most of that is wasted. People worry about government waste; I don't. I just shudder at what would happen to freedom in this country if the government were efficient in spending our money. The really fascinating thing is that our private sector has been so effective, so efficient, that it has been able to produce a standard of life that is the envy of the rest of the world on the basis of less than half the resources available to all of us."

MT, excellent comment! Thanks...

You are the best T.B.S.

You are all over this.

Unfortunately Republicans are just as interested in controlling our lives, they just aren't as imaginative.

The Dems do a good job hiding it behind a green agenda that will argue that if you're against it you're a earth hating moron. Thank you mr. gore.

I think washington is all about controlling the population and they use issues like these to keep us divided. If U.S. citizens are united, we are too strong and can't be held down.

I agree that they keep us pitted. But the liberals are the ones who mostly buy into it.

Mytbouf21


Its not just our govt that is a totalitarian movement, its the world. Think about all that already exist and how many you can think of that are wolves in sheeps clothing. An Orwell was a great author for writing that book decades ago, but its seems to scare my dreams at night thinking about what goes on in america and outside and how related it is to the book. Its mind blowing.

chumprock

There you go trying to draw imaginary lines. Both sides strive for the same thing.

cmp1966

Personally, I don't think this is an issue specific to either party - they seem to be arguing on what's the best way to go too far rather than if we should. I'd like to remind both of something Franklin said:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759