More states considering pay-by-the-mile Car Taxes - Page 2

AVGWarhawk · 08-17-11, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by August

They should institute a spandex tax. That would really get the bicyclists angry!

Yes, and carry on water bottle tax as well!

TLAM Strike · 08-17-11, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by August

I don't think they need to bother with that as mileage is recorded on the annual vehicle inspection.

In that case just make sure every day you drive to work you drive home backwards.

Problem Legislators?

Buddahaid · 08-17-11, 10:04 AM

Road wear is mainly the result of trucking, not autos. This is really stupid and won't work anyway.

AVGWarhawk · 08-17-11, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Road wear is mainly the result of trucking, not autos. This is really stupid and won't work anyway.

Agreed, it is stupid. Trucks pay a heavy road use tax already because of road wear created by the truck.

Stealhead · 08-17-11, 11:02 AM

That is a good chunk of change say the average person puts 12,000 miles per year on their car they will pay $10200 per year that is more than many people actually paid for their cars to start with.Now most families have two regularly driven vehicles so they will pay roughly $20400 per year.If they ever pass this I bet a lot of tax collectors will be seeing guns in their faces when they come to collect.

Just another scheme to get money they already put tons of taxes and fees on us as it is with cars yet we live in nation that relies on private transport unless you live in a large city you need a car to even be able to work and then they want to charge a low income person who has an old car only even worth a few grand and only making maybe $20,000.00 a year half his income just to get to work.

I mean why not encourage car pooling or something? That is how you can tell it is not really about conserving fuel or anything of that nature.The only way this would fly at all is if they massively improved public transportation in the US which would cost billions.

Sailor Steve · 08-17-11, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

In that case just make sure every day you drive to work you drive home backwards.

Problem Legislators?

Unfortunately odometers don't run backwards. This started in the '60s when it was found that unscrupulous used car dealers would jack up the cars and run them in reverse to make it look like they had less miles on them. For this same reason odometers are tamper-resistant.

Sailor Steve · 08-17-11, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Stealhead

$10200

Your math is off. It would "only" be $1020 per year. Still far too much, but we want our complaints to be accurate.

TLAM Strike · 08-17-11, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Unfortunately odometers don't run backwards. This started in the '60s when it was found that unscrupulous used car dealers would jack up the cars and run them in reverse to make it look like they had less miles on them. For this same reason odometers are tamper-resistant.

Yea I knew that, I just wanted to post a little Troll Science.

Stealhead · 08-17-11, 11:12 AM

Besides a GPS would now how far you went forwards, backwards, sideways,and any other known ways.So that idea would doubly fail and I bet theyd charge double the rate for not driving forwards.Now one could easily reprogram the cars computer where the GPS data is stored but I am betting that they'd have cars after a certain date have a way to send the data to some collection point to avoid such cheating.Just another sign that privacy does not exist in the modern world.

Sailor Steve · 08-17-11, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Yea I knew that, I just wanted to post a little Troll Science.

Well why'ncha say so in da foist place?

mookiemookie · 08-17-11, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Your math is off. It would "only" be $1020 per year. Still far too much, but we want our complaints to be accurate.

Your math is off.

$102.00 per year.

.85 cents is .0085 multiplied by 12,000 miles a year = $102.00

frau kaleun · 08-17-11, 11:28 AM

I was told there would be no math.

August · 08-17-11, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I was told there would be no math.

That's not math. Quantum physics is math. That is arithmetic.

Stealhead · 08-17-11, 11:31 AM

Oh mine is bad then should not do math or arithmetic or think while eating lunch.

Sailor Steve · 08-17-11, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Your math is off.

$102.00 per year.

.85 cents is .0085 multiplied by 12,000 miles a year = $102.00

Oh, that makes it okay then.

Thanks for the correction. My math has always been a little "off"...along with the rest of me.

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I was told there would be no math.

They lied.

Again.

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arithmetic.

That's what I get for going to school that teaches that "arithmetic" starts with an 'R'.

08-17-11, 10:04 AM	#18
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08-17-11, 11:02 AM	#20
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	That is a good chunk of change say the average person puts 12,000 miles per year on their car they will pay $10200 per year that is more than many people actually paid for their cars to start with.Now most families have two regularly driven vehicles so they will pay roughly $20400 per year.If they ever pass this I bet a lot of tax collectors will be seeing guns in their faces when they come to collect. Just another scheme to get money they already put tons of taxes and fees on us as it is with cars yet we live in nation that relies on private transport unless you live in a large city you need a car to even be able to work and then they want to charge a low income person who has an old car only even worth a few grand and only making maybe $20,000.00 a year half his income just to get to work. I mean why not encourage car pooling or something? That is how you can tell it is not really about conserving fuel or anything of that nature.The only way this would fly at all is if they massively improved public transportation in the US which would cost billions.

08-17-11, 11:12 AM	#24
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Besides a GPS would now how far you went forwards, backwards, sideways,and any other known ways.So that idea would doubly fail and I bet theyd charge double the rate for not driving forwards.Now one could easily reprogram the cars computer where the GPS data is stored but I am betting that they'd have cars after a certain date have a way to send the data to some collection point to avoid such cheating.Just another sign that privacy does not exist in the modern world.

08-17-11, 11:28 AM	#27
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	I was told there would be no math.

08-17-11, 11:31 AM	#29
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Oh mine is bad then should not do math or arithmetic or think while eating lunch.