Vice-Chancellor Andrei Hicks of Durham University won't like this. He is always going on how his petrol is a lot cheaper in America then it is in Australia. it looks like he might have to pay for the miles he and his wife travels each year.



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In the annals of dumb political ideas, few could be dumber than the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. The basic idea of the VMT tax is as it sounds: drivers would be taxed by the number of miles they drive in a calendar year.   If you live in New York City, no problem, you probably don't drive much anyway.  If you live in Montana, where the drive to take the kids to a playdate - one way - can take as much as an hour, well, too bad for you, you live in Montana.  Cling to your guns and carpool to church. Transportation Weekly recently published a draft of the Obama Administration's Transportation Opportunities Act and buried deep within it is....the VMT tax.  The Hill reports: 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. Needless to say, the White House immediately showered the VMT section of the Transportation Opportunities Act with gasoline and threw matches all over it. The Hill continues: 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.” Thus ended the VMT tax's brief spin as a policy proposal.

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It isnt stupid, it is stupidly brilliant. They could just put more tax on fuels, that would cover you if you drove more than anyone else. What they want is the information. Big daddy is getting bigger.

I guess it would mean micro chipping everyone..lol.. must have been April 1st

progressiveslol wrote on May 8^th, 2011 at 12:59am:

It isnt stupid, it is stupidly brilliant. They could just put more tax on fuels, that would cover you if you drove more than anyone else. What they want is the information. Big daddy is getting bigger.

A fuel tax would have the same effect and be enormously cheaper to implement and prob require no new legislation.

longweekend58 wrote on May 8^th, 2011 at 8:16am:

progressiveslol wrote on May 8th, 2011 at 12:59am: It isnt stupid, it is stupidly brilliant. They could just put more tax on fuels, that would cover you if you drove more than anyone else. What they want is the information. Big daddy is getting bigger. A fuel tax would have the same effect and be enormously cheaper to implement and prob require no new legislation.

longy how would they ever know how many miles they travelled... get real.

Didn`t Obama say before the last election, "there`ll NEVER be an added fuel tax under MY Govt! ----mooooooving forward ,,, yes we cainnn".  ?

When you think about it, it is a type of carbon tax.

America is the biggest user of cars in the world, so the more miles they travel the more petrol they use, the more petrol they use the more carbon they are creating. So they are paying for the carbon comming out of their cars and not knowing it