California Proposes Tax On Driving

[billym]

California Proposes Tax On Driving

A California transportation agency recently proposed what could become the most unpopular tax of all time: A tax for simply driving your car.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission of San Francisco is behind the idea and has said that the tax would work by installing GPS units into cars to track the miles that they travel. The vehicle owners would then be charged accordingly, with low-income drivers exempted.

The hope is that a VMT (vehicle miles traveled) tax would cut down on pollution and traffic congestion, while raising funds for things like road construction and surface repair.

[ShilohRose]

The CA government is trying very hard to empty the state of its human inhabitants, isn't it?

[Icguy]

GPS units on all cars? I wonder who will foot the bill for that? I don't think they thought this through very well. Not to mention what something like this would do to the conspiracy nuts out there. Well conspiracy nut or not, I don't want the powers that be being able to know where I am at any given time.

[mattfivefour]

Yeah, this'll go over big at the ballot box!