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San Francisco Considering Tracking Drivers And Taxing Them Per Mile
It’s as if San Francisco were trying to get people to leave:
Bay Area drivers could one day be tracked using a GPS-like device in their cars and taxed per miles driven – a scenario which is part of a proposed long-range study aimed at finding ways to reduce traffic and pollution, while also raising revenues.
Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments are scheduled to vote on Thursday on whether or not to authorize a study of the proposal. Under the plan, drivers would have to install trackers in their vehicle and officials would tax drivers for every mile they travel.
You deserve the government you choose. San Francisco has been electing these leftists for years.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
July 20th, 2012
“You deserve the government you choose. San Francisco has been electing these leftists for years”
Let’s see how long this lasts after some really RICH queer gets caught cheating on his “wife“.
cfm990
July 20th, 2012
That ain’t no way to raise revenues in San Fran. Install peter meters, tax em by the stroke.
IronyCurtain
July 20th, 2012
I think Progressive Insurance already has this and the imbeciles that have them as an insurance company are volunteering for it!
I’ve always said that this time the people will voluntarily jump into the ovens.
conservative cowgirl
July 20th, 2012
Well, of COURSE it was approved:
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21112190/officials-float-san-francisco-bay-area-mileage-tax
They estimate $15 million a day could be looted from the worker bees. The gubmint officials must be absolutely salivating and tingling at the thought of it.
Unneutral
July 20th, 2012
Bull shit, pure and simple, it’s nothing more than control of the people. If they want higher taxes on mileage just raise the fuel tax.
GPS units would be expensive for every driver. Of course that is how they like to create jobs; having all cars retro-fitted.
hanoverfist
July 20th, 2012
Sudway styl turnstiles on the Bath Houses might collect more money.
Who am I kidding?
Of cource they would.
General Quarters
July 20th, 2012
I am so glad I left that area in 05. Well anyway, every gallon of gas has a CA user road tax plus CA sales tax on top of the other state formula mandates and Fed taxes. So technically one is already taxed by the mile. That is why the gasoline there runs 50 to 60 cents more than the national average. Insane!
Menderman
July 20th, 2012
and then you get a ticket in the mail because this devise detected you were speeding…
or idled to long
or ran a stop sign
made a u-turn
etc…
Stirrin the B.S.
July 20th, 2012
WTF – that’s what all of the fuel taxes are for!!
@I Ronay – Progressive does have that technology, and I’ll bet that other insurance companies will be salivating to get their hands on San Fran’s data, if that passes. And San Fran will be more than happy to sell it to them – they’d be double dipping from the same data.
muddjuice
July 20th, 2012
It’s time to be revolting……..
General P. Malaise
July 20th, 2012
just think about it.
you already pay through gas taxes directly proportional to how much you drive. it takes an evil person to then tax you again on the same thing.
these people feel a need to have their boots on your neck and then jump up and down.
they are evil
Stranded in Sonoma
July 20th, 2012
After reading that phrase, it took me all of 1 second to realize that if your stated goal is to reduce traffic and your method is to tax driving, exactly how do you expect to raise revenue? You’ll get a little bit to begin with but then, as liberals always do, they will over-estimate the amount of revenue that will be generated and they will spend based on the estimate when the reality is the amount will actually fall.
The People’s Socialist Quagmire of California. I can’t wait to get out of this hellhole.
scr_north
July 20th, 2012
I used to enjoy visiting San Francisco. It really used to be a great city but I now fear it won’t be too many years before visitors have tags punched into their ears (sort of like cattle) in order for the city council to keep track of them while they visit. Then when they leave they can have the tag removed (at a small fee) and pay the bill for the miles they traveled and resources they used up while visiting the gulag by the bay.
Buffalobob
July 20th, 2012
Take that you environmental weenies who drive hybrid or electric cars. I say they place odometers on bikes and methane sensors on vegans.
Mahtomedi
July 20th, 2012
fyi:
Tim Pawlenty proposed it for the entire state of Minnesota when he was governor. Said they needed to ‘plan for the future’, when we’re all driving electric cars and not paying gasoline taxes to fix roads. A true fact.
Cryojohn
July 20th, 2012
One of the Genreal Assembly hopefuls here in Tidewater VA propsoed the same thing – cost him his chance at election. With a 44 mile roundtrip commute everyday I can;t say I’m sorry. My concern here is why do they need a gps device to tax this? Just get odometer readings with license renewals or something. The gps is for tracking something else…Big Brother at work.
MaryfromMarin
July 20th, 2012
ABAG–the Association of Bay Area Governments–has obviously been busy, busy, busy. In addition to this, they are also armpit deep in the One Bay Area monstrosity, which is attacking private property rights in conjunction with Agenda 21 issues. The Bay Area Smart Train and the CA-wide high speed rail are part and parcel of this power grab.
CA is pretty far along the track of regulating every aspect of our lives: where you live; how much and where you can drive; what you can and cannot own (real estate AND type of car); what you can and cannot eat; etc., etc. to the outermost reaches of space and time.
We’ll be right behind you, @Stranded.
Jeff
July 20th, 2012
Given the hopeless moonbat condition that is CA, there are only two questions as I see it: First why would any sane person want/or continue to live there, Second can we force CA out of the Union?
sTevo
July 20th, 2012
WTF is the gas tax?