In article >, Scott M. Kozel wrote:
> (Brent P) wrote:
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > - Even with more vehicles and more vehicle miles driven, increases in
>> > fuel economy have resulted in gas tax revenues not keeping up with
>> > neither inflation nor the increase in vehicle miles traveled. At least
>> > with a mileage tax, the revenue collected would keep pace with VMT.

> Your proposal for a mileage tax would only be collected once a year.

can't have 'congestion' pricing that way.

> The current fuel taxes are collected every time the motorist gass up,
> and are much more correlated with usage than an annual tax.

Yep.

>> The reason to tax this way IMO is to allow the logging of where people go
>> and when.
>
> That's it. So that people can be tracked every inch of the way.
> Thanks but no thanks...

I see no other purpose for it. And to those who would shout 'paranoid',
nobody would be 'watching'. When a person did something the government
didn't like, say become a political threat to those in power, complain
too much, or other wise need to be discredited, the data would be mined
for something that could be useful or twisted to be useful.