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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 06:48 AM
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24. OMG, this is so completely insane. Maybe NOW Suburbia will wake up. And the Tourism Industry.
Edited on Sat Mar-26-11 06:51 AM by WinkyDink
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  -CBO: Taxing mileage a 'practical option' for revenue enhancement Newsjock  Mar-25-11 03:44 PM   #0 
  - Um fuck that.  Initech   Mar-25-11 03:46 PM   #1 
  - They can take this idea and go straight to hell with it.  Sherman A1   Mar-25-11 03:47 PM   #2 
  - You still need roads, Sherman  jmowreader   Mar-25-11 08:19 PM   #16 
     - I don't dispute you need roads, however  Sherman A1   Mar-26-11 02:34 AM   #21 
  - Don;t we alread pay taxes on the miles we drive every time we buy gas?  notadmblnd   Mar-25-11 03:48 PM   #3 
  - Actually, what we do now is more rational than this proposal:  damntexdem   Mar-25-11 04:05 PM   #9 
     - What gas taxes do electric car drivers pay? Although the wear and tear  kelly1mm   Mar-25-11 10:41 PM   #20 
  - I thought that was what gas taxes were for......  Angry Dragon   Mar-25-11 03:48 PM   #4 
  - Raise the federal gasoline tax  gratuitous   Mar-25-11 03:51 PM   #5 
  - What would make sense is to start taxing trucks at a rate that  Blue Meany   Mar-25-11 03:51 PM   #6 
  - Diesel is taxed that way now  jmowreader   Mar-25-11 08:22 PM   #17 
  - Sure, raise the tax on diesel  DiverDave   Mar-26-11 06:47 AM   #23 
  - So someone getting 40 MPG is taxed the same as one getting 12 MPG ...  damntexdem   Mar-25-11 04:04 PM   #7 
  - Apparently so in this plan  Sherman A1   Mar-26-11 02:35 AM   #22 
  - No tax scheme ever seems to float out of Washington that is not regressive to the  indepat   Mar-25-11 04:05 PM   #8 
  - more regressive taxation. fuckers.  inna   Mar-25-11 04:08 PM   #10 
  - Tax the corporations, millionaires, billionaires and leave us alone..we  movonne   Mar-25-11 04:13 PM   #11 
  - Why not add a $1 surcharge to every stock exchange transaction instead?  Rage for Order   Mar-25-11 04:14 PM   #12 
  - End or reduce mileage deductions for vehicles  The Second Stone   Mar-25-11 04:16 PM   #13 
  - Yes it's workable....but it's still dumb  jeff47   Mar-25-11 04:33 PM   #14 
  - These days, the tax increases are regressive.  Dawson Leery   Mar-25-11 07:26 PM   #15 
  - yay! regressive tax schemes!  fishwax   Mar-25-11 08:25 PM   #18 
  - good luck with that I'll rip the tracker right out and smash it  MikeW   Mar-25-11 09:02 PM   #19 
  - OMG, this is so completely insane. Maybe NOW Suburbia will wake up. And the Tourism Industry.  WinkyDink   Mar-26-11 06:48 AM   #24 
 

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