Vehicle miles tax idea advances

Here is one for you....

Say I travel out of state. While driving my vehicle I end up putting on some 2-3000 more miles while out of state. Now I have to pay my state for the miles I drove in another state? How does that work?

Ok second theory here....

How will they do this? Read the odometer and implement a new database or an area in an existing database? Hello wouldn't that take funding to make and test? Even adding a simple little box would take money to program, money to implement across the state at the various inspection sites, money to pay the testers, and money to upkeep the servers it would need to be housed on. I mean come on now. Why spend more money to make less? Ok what about devices? You know to make sure the people don't just roll back the odometer a few hundred miles to save a few bucks. Would everyone have to go purchase these or would the state provide them? Ooops more money spent by either the consumer (which would probably get taxed at the shop selling the device too), or the government. Ooops what if it breaks?

I realize the government does some things backwards, take the way they name things, but this is going a bit far. How can yet another burden of taxes fly to the consumer? Aren't we taxed enough? Food, drinks, products, gas, state, federal? I came from Ohio we had local taxes too. Instead of hairbrain ideas how about something like a simple local tax, you know the one by the cities? Every city had their tax rates usually around 2%, this helped to offset stupid hairbrained ideas such as this one. Tax on gas is low and some cities even put no tax on beverages. Overall cities were able to overcome problems such as this!

The post says the mileage tax is being considered as "a replacement for the gas tax." That may doom the idea, given that a mileage tax that low couldn't bring in as much as the current fuel tax:

Mileage Tax:
12,000 miles per year @ 1/4 cent or 1/2 cent a mile = $30 or $60 per year.

Current gasoline tax:
12,000 miles driven in a vehicle that gets an average 25 miles per gallon =
480 gallons of gas per year.

480 gallons taxed @ the current 29.9 cents per gallon = $143.52

For the mileage tax to "replace" the gasoline tax, the mileage tax rate would have to be more than 1 cent per mile.

The idea that rural drivers would be hit disproportionately, doesn't follow. Rural people drive more, burning more gas, meaning they already pay gasoline tax disproportionately. A tax on gasoline consumption is already a tax on how far you drive, using your gas gauge instead of your odometer as the marker. The gas tax already taxes rural drivers more than city drivers, so that situation wouldn't change under a mileage tax.

The issue is miles driven, which have been going up and up, and gasoline consumption, which as vehicles get more efficient, will go down.

The scurrilous thing about this mileage proposal is that, at least with a gasoline tax you could cut the amount of gasoline tax you pay by buying a more efficient vehicle, consuming less gasoline and still driving all the miles that you previously drove.

The only way to escape the mileage tax would be to drive less -- which would inspire some to stay home, or take the bus (if one was available to take) or car pool.

Must be city slickers who are for this idea. Let the proponents of this miles tax idea live out in the country for one month and see how many miles they rack up. (Need a dozen eggs, milk - 22 miles R/T, nearest gas station - 18 miles R/T, nearest medical clinic - 30 miles R/T, nearest hospital - 70 miles R/T, haircut/hairdo/perm - 36 miles R/T)) Then let them go back to the drawing board.

But, if we're going to have a tax for ALL users of our roadways then why doesn't the legistators make it mandatory for all bicyclists register their bikes. After all, shouldn't they bare part of the burden since they clammored for wider roadway shoulders on which they ride AT THE EXPENSE OF MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATORS.

However, the upside to this road miles tax is that it will foster a whole new industry. People will be buying a second speedometer. They'll use the second speedometer the majority of the time and reconnect OEM speedometer occassionally. Or, for those of us with expensive toys, we'll just disconnect the speedometer and use the MPH function on our GPS to see how fast we're driving.

Yes the Democrat Welfare Queens take taxis at taxpayer expense everywhere.
Great for the "Change We can Believe In " crowd. "Yes We Can!"

They're going to love this in rural areas where jobs and grocery stores may be 50 miles away like Crawford, Tx where the Bush ranch is located and much of the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, etc.