Obama administration floats draft plan to tax cars by the mile
By Pete Kasperowicz - 05/05/11 07:45 AM ET
The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive.
The plan is a part of the administration's Transportation Opportunities Act, an undated draft of which was obtained this week by Transportation Weekly.
The White House, however, said the bill is only an early draft that was not formally circulated within the administration.
“This is not an administration proposal," White House spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said. "This is not a bill supported by the administration. This was an early working draft proposal that was never formally circulated within the administration, does not taken into account the advice of the president’s senior advisers, economic team or Cabinet officials, and does not represent the views of the president.”
I wonder where this plan came to life? My guess is that there is more than than a caucus of Washington liberals absolutely drooling over their desires to see European socialism at full tilt in America. As a matter of fact? I am sure of it. and every time I see one of these lame brain leftist schemes, it only reinforces the reality.
Note at the end of the report how the white house spokesman attempts to 'ten foot pole' the proposal away and claim absolute ignorance of where it even originated. "No, no! no! We Don't even know where this proposal came from or how it got here or why people are talking about it!"
Slowly slowly catchy monkeys........right.......
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Reminds me of the old Johnny Carson joke back in the 70's about the "new" zip codes. Johnny said, "Instead of teaching 50,000 mailmen geography, we have to teach 200 million Americans a new numbering system."
I prefer toll roads. Even though I'm tracked by using the electronic toll tags, it's BS that the federal government thinks it can tax me when I drive on purely local roads. It's bad enough that I pay among the highest gasoline taxes in the country here in Wisconsin. This will be another in a long line of states-rights issues (memorize it -- the 10th Amendment is your FRIEND!).
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