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Fuel tax could be replaced with by-the-mile road tax

• McClatchy
The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history. In its place you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove — tracked by a Global Positioning System device in your car and uploaded to a billing center.

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Comment by TheRockster
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I am utterly damned tired of being snooped on by psychopaths and bullies. Where I am located right now and where I have been is not the business of government thugs and snitches.

The "mileage tax" also does not encourage economy.

Comment by Trouser Chili
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Well, by 2020 there may be a lot more non-gas vehicles on the road not paying any fuel taxes.  Gotta get their fare share somehow. 

Of course they will not institute a mileage tax INSTEAD of a fuel tax.  They will do both.

If they are dumb enough to use GPS, it will spawn an industry of GPS jammers and decoys.

Comment by RickStone
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 Time to develope new hacks and jammers.



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