(Brent P) wrote:
>
> wrote:
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> > - 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.

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

> 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...

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