On December 16th, 2008 at 5:06 pm, conservativesRus said:
What I want to know, if they check my odometer, who says I drove those miles in their state?

As it relates to the NC law under consideration, it doesn’t matter. You would pay the tax for all miles driven whether in state or out.

That’s really pissing some people off, such as college students who are residents of NC and would have to tag their car here, but go to school out of state so almost all of their driving is outside of NC. NC could be collecting taxes on a car that is using none of its infrastructure.

Just another instance of the Raleigh crapweasels in action. They are also considering incremental property taxes based on the view your property has and putting water meters on wells.

To the people here that are complaining about Damn Yankees spoiling NC — uh, uh. The Raleigh asshats who run roughshod over the citizenry are born and raised tarheels. And the state just promoted its crooked Lt. Gov. to Gov. elect. That didn’t happen because of Damn Yankees.

It seemed like an odd problem to me because wasn’t the Metro pushing for more ridership all along as the salvation to all our troubles? And, if we get more customers, shouldn’t you be getting more profit to reinvest in your service?

Alas, that was my naive free market self speaking. I came to realize that the Metro has no break even point. It was never designed to make a profit. The more service it provides, the more taxes it must be fed.

You see, everything the government does ultimately is designed to pick your pocket.

Congratulations North Carolina, you will finally get the change you voted for…….

Yes, I can see the Maryland General Assembly jumping in line right behind North Carolina on this – in fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if this were pre-filed. From Michelle Malkin:
First, they hand us our Obama-approved tire gauges.
Next, they polic…

I don’t recognize it now.

And who would be paying for these GPS devices? And the system required to manage all of this?

You got it. The lowly serf known as the tax payer.

On December 16th, 2008 at 6:26 pm, Common Sense said:
This is the same kind of thing we’ve endured in CO for the past several years with water. When we were in the last drought, we were begging to reduce water use and penalized for using water outside of restrictions. Water use was down 30% as a result.

Ah come on, you need to curb your use of the natrual resources so the gov’t can make way for more illegal and legal immigrants. Even when there is not a drought here in Austin TX, the city council runs adds encouraging everryone to cut back on water use (don’t water lawns, water efficeint shower heads, etc). That is b/c we are expecting to double the population over the next 20 years (that growth is not organic, mostly from legal and illegal immigration). And they realize unless we reduce per capita consumption the CO river can not provide enough. There are discussion about raising rates and setting strict capcaity limits, kinds of lawns to plant, etc. So, the current citizens are being told to change the way they live, and have lived for generations, so we can make room for more 3rd world immigrants. Its the compaaaaassionaaaattte thing to do, don’t you know. I would not reduce watering my lawn by 1 mionute per week to help some illegal move here and live comfortably.