Now it is, I agree.

However, earlier it perhaps was not. It was because of public outrage that it is now a non-issue, and hopefully will remain so for a long time.

Certainly not because of outrage on this forum. No one gives a crap about what anyone here says. I suspect Obama nixed it primarily because of his own beliefs whatever those may be. IMO fuel taxes are preferable to mileage taxes as long as most of our transpiration runs on taxable fuels. My main objection to a mileage tax would be that it removes the incentive to drive a fuel-efficient vehicle. If and when most of our cars are electric, I'd be more OK with a mileage tax, but I'd still prefer a tax on electricity rather than on mileage.

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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)

Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL

Cash on the side + people unemployed + crappy highways= a good excuse for a public works project.

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

I think the best one was today I herd a lady at the gym saying they are going put a Tax on people who pay others to do their income tax=Tax on Tax.

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2015 ML350 4Matic. Wifes DD
2015 GLK350 4Matic. My winter DD
2012 E350 4Matic. Road Trip car
2009 CLK350 Coupe Designo.Kleemann Tune For nice days/DD
2006 CL600. V12.Eurocharged Tune. Enough said
2005 CLK55 AMG Coupe.Kleemann Tune. For the sound and style
2004 CLK320 Cabriolet. 2005+ Interior swap. For the sunny Florida days & beach days

Yeah it will be like the I95 bridge in West Haven...horrible over budget, and horrible currupt. Plus it takes a decade to do a 1 year project.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

here's what I propose - not gps tracking my every movement. Try it and I'll pull the device off as soon as you install it.

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Sounds good tough guy, but the tax/mile isn't gonna happen.

Or I-84... ridiculously over budget, even more insanely corrupt, took them years to finish it....and they built it wrong and so now they have to redo it....

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

Pure BS.

"O": "Put the tax in the budget bill, make a few consessions to the Reps but keep the Mileage Tax buried in there somewhere..."

REID: "Yessa master!"
POLOSI: "Yasir!"
EVERYOTHERMORON: "Hot Damn! With chitlin's and corn-pone?" (Is this stuff actually food? )

Yep...I think it's plausible...

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'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Yogi Berra ~

As an individual bill...none of the crap ever does...but if BURIED in a budget bill...**TAH! DAH!***

Bend over and latch onto those ankles!

Your representative will say something like "I didn't have time to read the whole budget over before I voted on it!" -or- "I was against it before I voted on it and I'm still against it...but Que Sera, Sera..."

Let your representative know YOU KNOW that someone, somewhere, is proposing this crap...and if it does pass, you'll hold him, and his office, personally responsible for giving you the long stick in the short hole.

Then, be a man and follow through...

Remember, if we don't care, why should they?

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
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I have no idea what you are ranting about.
It's impossible to bury a bill requiring drivers to carry around a GPS.

How is it impossible?? It could have been placed int he stimulus bill, and nobody would have known until after the vote...Barry loves to create drama and panic to confuse you on the facts.

It's alot like watching his left and not knowing what his right hand is doing.

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85,000 miles

I have written to congresspersons and senators after being compelled by various views on this forum. I suggest if anyone feels strongly about something, to do the same. A website like this won't sway issues by itself but it can provide a motivating factor to take action.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

Right. I was not trying to suggest that the thread here was any sort of motivation.

But multiply this thread by, oh, a few hundred thousand, and then by the viewers of each thread, which is over 600 for this one, and some of those viewers will contact their overlords.

For now, no because as dieseladdict says, it kills the incentive for fuel efficient cars.

I prefer liberal to tough guy.

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