From the Home of Liberal Idiocy
January 2nd 2009 21:51
Oregon has one of the lowest car registration fees in the nation. It cost me less than one hundred dollars, inlcuding a custom plate, to register my car for two years. It is so cheap to register here that people from other states try to buy cars here and register them here using friends/family addresses because we have no sales tax either.
The car industry is struggling under federal and state regulations. There's so much they have to worry about that help very small portions of the population that their costs are through the roof. Yes, the fact that GM is responsible for paying 1 million people who are retired every year until they died also hurts them, but the last thing they need is one more thing they have to build into cars.
So, what does shifty Ted Kulongoski propose? Requiring new cars sold in Oregon to have a non-removable GPS installed so the state can track the number of miles you drive and send you a tax bill. Why, do you ask, is the state needing to do this instead of using gas tax?
Well as the article explains and is common sense to anybody but a brain dead liberal, when you give tax incentives and chant "global warming, global warming" over and over again to encourage people to buy gas efficient cars, while those people aren't driving any farther, you get less tax revenue. Guess what? A Prius does just as much damage to the road as a non-hybrid Corolla.
Therefore, people like me living in Oregon could soon have the state recording that I drove to Republican headquarters every Saturday from convention time to election. A future Republican led government (wait, let me stop laughing before I keep typing), could track which citizens are frequenting topless bars or the ubiquitous adult shop (no zoning laws in Oregon so they are everywhere, literally).
Let's see, how many other choices do we have for raising more revenue? How about raising registration fees? How about toll booths on the heavily traveled roads? Gee, that has worked in other states . . .
Why won't Oregon do anything like this? They both affect poor people. Poor people register cars but don't, according to their logic, drive as far.
There's the obvious invasion of privacy involved in this, but let's look at one more scenario. Your car is stolen and taken on a 300 mile joy ride . . . Try to get THAT off your tax bill next time it shows up in the mail . . .
You can support my blogging even more by buying my book at Author House. Unlike liberals, this is the only fantasy world I live in
The car industry is struggling under federal and state regulations. There's so much they have to worry about that help very small portions of the population that their costs are through the roof. Yes, the fact that GM is responsible for paying 1 million people who are retired every year until they died also hurts them, but the last thing they need is one more thing they have to build into cars.
So, what does shifty Ted Kulongoski propose? Requiring new cars sold in Oregon to have a non-removable GPS installed so the state can track the number of miles you drive and send you a tax bill. Why, do you ask, is the state needing to do this instead of using gas tax?
Governor Ted Trying to Get to Work
Well as the article explains and is common sense to anybody but a brain dead liberal, when you give tax incentives and chant "global warming, global warming" over and over again to encourage people to buy gas efficient cars, while those people aren't driving any farther, you get less tax revenue. Guess what? A Prius does just as much damage to the road as a non-hybrid Corolla.
Therefore, people like me living in Oregon could soon have the state recording that I drove to Republican headquarters every Saturday from convention time to election. A future Republican led government (wait, let me stop laughing before I keep typing), could track which citizens are frequenting topless bars or the ubiquitous adult shop (no zoning laws in Oregon so they are everywhere, literally).
Let's see, how many other choices do we have for raising more revenue? How about raising registration fees? How about toll booths on the heavily traveled roads? Gee, that has worked in other states . . .
Why won't Oregon do anything like this? They both affect poor people. Poor people register cars but don't, according to their logic, drive as far.
There's the obvious invasion of privacy involved in this, but let's look at one more scenario. Your car is stolen and taken on a 300 mile joy ride . . . Try to get THAT off your tax bill next time it shows up in the mail . . .
You can support my blogging even more by buying my book at Author House. Unlike liberals, this is the only fantasy world I live in
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