Obama throws Transportation Secy nominee’s mileage tax plan under bus
President Obama just recently called GOP Transportation Secretary nominee Ray LaHood one of his “favorite Republicans.”
Er, uh, um, not anymore:
President Barack Obama on Friday rejected his transportation secretary’s suggestion that the administration consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy.
“It is not and will not be the policy of the Obama administration,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters, when asked for the president’s thoughts about Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s suggestion, raised in an interview with The Associated Press a daily earlier.
Gasoline taxes that for nearly half a century have paid for the federal share of highway and bridge construction can no longer be counted on to raise enough money to keep the nation’s transportation system moving, LaHood told the AP.
“We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles that they traveled,” the former Illinois Republican lawmaker said in the AP interview.
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That bus is going to have to be raised up…to be more like a monster truck with all the people being thrown under it.
I’m shocked that Obambi doesn’t want to put a governmental monitoring device in all our cars.
Good. That’s exactly where it belongs.
I oppose many of the Obama administration’s positions, but this is a good decision.
Between this, his opposition to the fairness doctrine, and the announcement that the detainees at the Bagram air force base in afghanistan are “enemy combatants” and have no rights under the US Constitution, I’d say amen.
Just wait before celebrating.
Will this idea come back in a few months, or in a year or so, as B. Hussein Obama’s idea…and thus a “good” one that he will support?
Whenever you hear of an Obama decision or pronouncement you like, I suggest you “curb your enthusiasm.” More than likely
1. Obama is lying or
2. Obama is working on another idea that is even worse or
3. He doesn’t want to get into at the moment what he perceives as a distraction to his agenda or
4. All of the above.
So starting with those premises, begin your search for the truth and good luck! The man is a hard-core leftist and is not to be trusted. Like the late, lamented Kruschev, he believes promises are like piecrust — meant to be broken. Obama has a history of lying and deceit that is breathtaking. To any rational person, he should have no credibility remaining. None. True, he has Krauthammer hoodwinked (i.e. Obama is some kind of Centrist), but that wouldn’t be difficult.
More to the point, Obama knows, as Lincoln might have said, you can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time and brother, those are mighty good odds.
My guess this policy won’t replace the gas tax but will be in addition to the gas tax. The authorities will also be able to better track your movements.
Soylent Green is people!
Don’t forget every statement by Obamacommie has an expiration date. A gallon of milk in the sun will last longer than a Obamacommie policy statement.
Look for CitiBank to be taken over by the Obamakin’s next week…Gibb’s denial Friday to calm the market and bump up Citi stock is another SlimShadyObammi scam.
I would also have to say that this is a good call.
Taxing the gasoline means that we have extra incentive to be as efficient as possible in the use of that gasoline.
Changing the tax to mileage has two major flaws. First, it doesn’t do anything to encourage efficiency. After all, if you drive 50 miles with a 2 mpg vehicle, you’ll pay the same taxes as someone driving the same distance in a 25 mpg vehicle. Other than the straight cost of the gas, that’s no encouragement to be efficient.
More importantly, though, is the privacy violation and bureaucracy created by such a tax scheme. This would require the government to track the mileage of every single vehicle, bill the owners, and create ways of checking up on that mileage to catch the tax dodgers. There is no way I can accept such a widespread invasion of privacy.
Hrm, it says he’s rejecting the tax idea, it doesn’t say he’s rejecting the idea of GPS in vehicles reporting to the government.
Speaking of back peddling, have any of you read the new headlines about Club GITMO? Apparently, the prison isn’t reminiscent of Abu Ghraib and the Soviet Gulags the libtards have been comparing the place to. NOW they admit it’s “humane”.
Is anyone keeping count on how many new taxes our socialist government is contemplating imposing on us? It seems everyday there is another activity the socialist want to tax.
I saw that too and am elated about it! Not only is the far Left now beginning to realize Obama used anti-war rhetoric to bamboozle them into supporting him, but he’s actually making some wise choices: Gitmo is humane and isn’t closing anytime soon; Iraq is a success and we’re not withdrawing prematurely; and we’re doubling down in Afghanistan w/ 17K additional US troops. Could it be that Obama and not McCain, was the real Bush III?
On February 21st, 2009 at 10:39 am, Madam President said:
Oops! #12 is in ref to this poster’s comment; for some reason, it didn’t paste in my previous post.
So, rising oil prices have driven the marketplace to favor smaller cars. And a stumbling economy has done the same, plus forcing people to simply drive less than they had in the past. Both lead to a decline in the amount of gasoline sold, and therefore to reduced gasoline tax revenues.
Both also lead, however, to greatly reduced wear and tear on roadways, reducing maintenance costs.
Yet the government wants to maintain the same dollar level of income. Go figure.
Frankly, a tax on gasoline is already a tax on miles driven – and it is, in addition, a progressive tax on mileage, with low-mileage vehicles paying proportionally more per mile than high-mileage vehicles. As it should be, given that low mileage vehicles are almost invariably heavier and cause more roadway damage.
The truly frightening thing about this proposal is the utter incompetence, ineptitude and stupidity it reveals on the part of those making such proposals. Not to mention the greed – as already noted, reduced traffic and lighter cars also reduce road maintenance costs.
Another interesting feature of this proposal is: how do you plan to track mileage? A pilot program in Oregon is Orewellian in implementation – cars are equipped with GPS tracking units, gasoline must be purchased at stations equipped with sensors which read the GPS information when you pull up to the pump, and the tax is collected then and there. No recourse, and a perfect system for tracking every individual driver in the country’s movements without their permission, a court order or any sort of oversight.
It’s a brave new world. Technology will allow us to succeed where no other socialist/communist regime has.
Imagine a day in the not to distant future when your employer electronically reports your “earnings” to the government every week. The government then decides how much they will graciously allow you to keep. Afterwards, the government will direct deposit whatever they think you need into your government owned bank.
Everybody wins.
Wow. That was written as sarcasm. But I would be willing to be there are actually leftists out there who would think such a plan makes perfect sense.
EWTHeckman – you are missing something. No one has said that the miles-taxed plan would replace the gas tax. It would be in addition to the existing gas tax.
This seems like an expensive and inefficient way to collect taxes. Backfitting cars with GPS? At whose expence? A system to monitor all autos? How many people/ satellites/ computers will that take? How would the billing work? Even if they wanted to do it, I don’t think they could make it work.
I wonder if “dear leader” has realized in only 30 days in office he and his administration have jumped the shark. A new record set by a man truly in over his head! There is no doubt the Marxist actions of his favorite Republican were a little too much to handle after the latest real polling data hit the White House (not the crap they feed us from the MSM). I wonder if they can smell the tar warming to a boil and the flames from torches as the rabble slowly awakens from all this hope and very little change left in our pockets after paying for the lazy and mistakes of the stupid. Yep! The peasants are revolting and they smell too.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
Sadly, I think you are right. I cannot wait to confront our democrap representative at the townhall meeting the leftist, socialist slug has scheduled next week. I’m taking personal time off from work to be there. If Michelle and the others can take the time to “take to the streets” the least I can do is participate at this townhall meeting…
I have to agree with some of our BLOGGERS… I bet BHO either has a “BETTER” plan, or he inadvertently let the CAT out of the bag… Hell, here in AZ, with all the PHOTO RADAR we have, they already are on the path to knowing everything we do while driving… Probably the only STATE that has a caution warning from AAA if traveling through… To go along with TWOFOOT, I made a remark similar to that before the ELECTION… Of course it was made in JEST… Not so funny now is it???
Taxes are never funny. They are kind of like the government that way. At best a necassary evil, at worst, an efficient way to enslave the people.
Wow. This is major, major news. A President disagrees with a proposal by one of his Cabinet members. Definitely a historical watershed.
On February 21st, 2009 at 11:11 am, wrcnossen said: (#16)
WE would pay for the retrofitting–either directly through a governmental mandate or through our taxes. Or both–look at the analog to digital converter TV box program. Even with the coupon I had to pay out of pocket money too.
I’m not surprised at the back-pedaling. Too much, too soon. Look for piecemeal implementation, say a requirement for GPS beacons in our cars “for our safety”–a horrible hijacking of the commercial, voluntary OnStar system. Then the other pieces will come into play.
But the whole idea is horribly Big Brother-ish. SixDegrees in #14 above is quite right with his comments.
Not to worry, up here in the Cranberry Republic, the Great Commonwealth of Taxachusetts, aka the Pay State, they are trying out such a plan.
It will allegedly replace the gas tax (we will have the highest in the country soon).
See, when cars become more fuel efficient, they use less gas and pay less in taxes. So they need to figure out another way to fund the thousands of hack workers.
So, they scare the voters by suggesting that police, firefighters and teachers would have to go.
In the meantime, some prof at UMass who “teaches” 2 classes makes $250k a year (there are hundreds and hundreds of 6 figure professors at our state universities), and hundreds of relatives and friends of state politicians make $52,000+ a year (base pay, not including benefits, pension, overtime) taking tickets in a toll both.
This is the only thing I agree with Obama on so far. (probably will be the last too).
But this idea to put a GPS on every car and tax the mileage is very obsurd and frightening. For one thing, I cannot imagine the undertaking and money involved in even trying to put a GPS on every car anyway. That is quite a financial burden we do not need.
Secondly, people who drive more DO PAY MORE TAXES. They buy more gas to drive more miles thus paying more taxes anyway. And for those of us who choose to drive a gas guzzler, we pay even higher taxes technically.
I have to wonder how anyone can actually think this is a good idea to fuel more taxes. It’s just another way for the government to control us.
This is a pattern we should expect to see frequently: someone on Obama’s team proposes soemthing that is over-the-top, Obama dismisses it in order to appear to be reasonable, then proceeds to implement policy that isn’t as outlandish as the initial proposal, but is still far more of an intrusion into our lives than we’ve ever faced before.
The mileage meter on my car won’t bother me as much as the gas mask that regulates my CO2 emissions.
Overblown. From the article:
In other words, the transportation secretary is thinking aloud (not wise in the presence of reporters, but not the worst thing in the world). Obama did not throw him anywhere, just said that his casual remark was not US policy.
Unfortunately, I doubt there is anywhere near this sort of planning and machination taking place. I think what we’re seeing is gross incompetence flowing from the top down, along with a complete lack of coordination, guiding principle or plan of any kind at all.
We’ve elected a rock star with no actual skills beyond a pretty face. We could have done as well electing Paris Hilton – better, perhaps, given that Paris has actually built her own economic empire from scratch, which puts her head and shoulders above Obama when it comes to go-go-boots-on-the-ground experience.
My guess is that His Lordliness found out that Ray LaHood actually paid his taxes!!!
What kind of example is that to set for young Democrats?
Isn’t he the Transportation Secretary, not the Transportation Secretary nominee?
She also had a far superior energy plan. What is Obama’s? Kill coal, kill oil, kill nuclear energy and tax and regulate what remains, whatever it might be.
Candle power.
When the President makes a decision I agree with, I have to be intellectually honest.
Good decision, Mr. President. Thank you.
I wish you would make more like it.
Obama’s plan.
http://www.heatsurge.com/
Of course the government version will use ACORN mantles instead of the Amish wood mantles. The heater is free, but the ACORN mantle will be $35,000 and you will be forced to buy one.
But, hey – you will receive a $40,000 tax credit if you don’t have a job or live in a home in danger of foreclosure.
This morning Mr. Durangodarlin and I were having breakfast at a local restaurant, discussing our government. I heard myself saying that I no longer trusted this government and didn’t have any confidence in this government. That’s a horrible feeling to have. As far as throwing the Transportation Secretary under the bus, things are not as they seem with this administration.
Smoke and mirrors.
This mileage tax plan was tested a few years ago in Oregon. The reason they never went through with it was that they realized they would have to outfit every car with a GPS tracker and they were already being threatened with lawsuits over invasion of privacy.
Here you go.
Truesoldier….TOO FUNNY..thanks!
And we should be surprised because…?
*Good decision by P-BO; Real problem is that every level of government keeps coming up with new, insane ideas to raise revenue(steal our money), when their first priority should be to reduce government waste; The tax revolt has just begun so look out any politician on the wrong side of this issue; You are going down.
Maybe not, but it’s hard to imagine that you trusted the last on more. Bush . . . puleeeeeze
I don’t see this as a condemnation or betrayal of LaHood. Reads like a clarification to keep us all from exploding over what would be an incredibly instrusive means of collecting mileage data.
LaHood should have stated his position a bit more clearly. Is he against the gas tax? Then say it. Is he for continued federal funding of the highway system? Appears so. So he starts supposing that a replacement for the gas tax would reasonably be a mileage tax. Just a stupid thing to do at this time.
I’m all for paying to use the roads that I use. I’m not thrilled about paying for the roads that you use, whether it is a gas tax or a mileage tax.
Now, to what granite (#4) said: there is in fact a “blue ribbon” panel that will make this very recommendation next week.
Oh, boy.
And LGM goes back to his favorite mantra of blame Bush….LOL talk about a broken record.
The cheers the cheerleaders yelled way back in high school sounded as serious and deep as what this clown (of course, not referring to you, TS!) posts.
Yes, that evil political genius, Boosh. Who, with the media completely in the tank, and his record high approval ratings, was able to keep the American people completely in the dark about his nefarious schemes.
Yeah, right.
It makes me wonder if the Libs are having Bush Withdrawal Syndrome now and will they need some special detox program to help them through this tough time.
I wish he would use a real bus, kill a few of these Obaminations and resign in disgrace-give himself a pardon, I don’t care.
Bush Withdrawal Syndrome
I think so. That or too much toxic Kool Aid.
Truesoldier said (#42):
I would rather be glad Obama is better than Bush than wail on at the ways Obama is not perfect. Lord knows he is not (snark bait). Is the glass half full or half empty?
With Hillary’s statement on China – that human rights must take a back seat behind the pursuit of economics, global warming and security – I’d imagine the Lefties will soon be experiencing widespread Exploding Head Syndrome.
Oh, and we just killed 13 civilians in Afghanistan, according to CNN.
Shortest.
Honeymoon.
Ever.
At some point, in the near future, driving a car will become a luxury. You all know it’s coming, with the need for more taxes and his friends, the environmentalists.
You couldn’t have been more right, specifically #1, the man is a lying opportunist…actions like throwing the present day Repub, (moderate) Sec. of Transpotation under the bus is an attempt to side track the right. The mileage idea was a left wing socialist, guberment control idea…he junked it to in order to deceive the right, making them think he’s a moderate. He’s as much a moderate as Satlin was a member of the John Birch Society. As you said he will n the future do everything he can to control every aspect of everyones life.
What’s with Krauthammer anymore, too much D.C. look aid and cocktail parties?
All I can say about Krauthammer, is that he seems to have drunk the same koolaid: that is he, like Parker, etc., is transfixed by the vision of a post-racial America that Obama will bring about, one in which everyone will join hands and we will never have to discuss it again. Uh-huh. Cowards that we are . . . Well, we’ve seen how that’s working out.
Obama will be a racial disaster, but the pseudo-cons, like good liberals everywhere, will just blame conservatives so their racket and fraud is safe.
Speaking of racket and fraud, it is clear Obama has in fact started to release terrorists from Gitmo (there is a good write-up over at the corner.nationalreview.com — too long to quote here so you will have to scroll down to find it).
[Sigh] Obama tells us one thing, and then does another. It’s getting to be a quite pattern. What a shock.
I changed my mind. This is too important to be lost.
What good is it to validate Gitmo and defend renditions if Obama is going to release the terrorists anyway? [Andy McCarthy]
For all of you conspiracy theory-lovers out there, just think of how many people the government can already accurately track any minute of the day by honing in on the GPS of their cell-phones. Big Brother is already watching you.
Don’t be fooled he’s lied about everything his entire life. He’s probably against it before he’s for it.
Beenthere, thanks for posting the story. All I can say is Obama has proved he is a gambler. First he is gambling with not only our money, but our childrens money and thier childrens money on his so called stimulous package and now he is gambling with our very safety.
$5 is shows up in the budget somewhere.
Of course, the mileage tax would not apply to liberals or Al Gore. They can burn as much fuel as they like because they are part of the apparatchik.
Nope. The glass is dumber than a rock.
Obama and I actually both disapprove of the same stupid mileage tax plan? I think I need a bath, I feel dirty.
Well I guess the Obama clock can be right twice a day… /shock
Mrs. Malkin, it looks as though this page is broken (on my browser at least). The sidebar is way down at the bottom of the page. Some of the page’s coding is visible to me just above the Emily Litella video, that might be the cause.
On February 21st, 2009 at 1:41 pm, lgm said: (#40)
Well, I guess bias is everything. I did not like all of President Bush’s policies, and I said so. However, in general, I trusted President Bush to have the best interests of the United States in his heart, and had no plans for excessively un-Consitutional theories and programs. (The prescription drugs increase of Medicare is not more un-Constitutional than Medicare itself.) The bailout plan(s) at the end broke new, troubling territory, and I wish he hadn’t done that. But his Supreme Court nominees–the ones who made it–were quite good.
With President Obama (it hurts to write that, but I have to be evenly formal), there is someone who is an avowed “liberal”, which is his case (although not with all liberals) equals socialist. Further, I see excessive self-aggrandizement with his real and honorary titles, bad judgment in choosing key personnel (we’re a country of 300 million people–how can there NOT be a qualified person to be Secretary of the Treasury who has actually paid all of his income taxes as he’s supposed to?), and breaking his open government policies to ram-rod a so-called stimulus package that is full of pork and camel’s-nose-under-the-tent changes to our government. And, in areas where he has not yet acted as President, his people are notoriously pro-federal government central of the country (health care and he has not rejected the un-Constitutional end-run around state governors about taking federal money–and its strings).
The President and his staff have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution but they act as though they have never read it, let alone believe it. (No, the Constitution is not perfect, but if you don’t like the provisions, amend it. There is a process, proven to be successful, for that.)
I could go into more details, but I can feel my blood pressure going way up, and I don’t need that. So, for President Obama, I am going to be of the “show me” school before I trust him one fraction of an inch farther that I am required by law, regulation, and tradition to do.
Well… it was a hard choice – I didn’t like his policies, I didn’t like his liberal socialism, nor his mollycoddling of the house and senate – however the left absolutely hated him. Foaming at the mouth mindless rabid hate. And he was everything they could ever want in a president. Except for party alliance and a brief showing of spine after 9-11 GW Bush was everything the democrats could want in a president. He gave them everything they begged for including a scape goat for their nonsensical rage. Well, hell! It’s a known fact that politically the left has never been right about anything – so my mind was made up and unlike the left I disliked him for real reasons, but I supported him because anyone that can anger a liberal into a foaming rage just by waiving at the camera is the man for me!
You should have seen me in the Reagan years – them were the days, when America was good and liberals were social pariahs. Good times… good times.
That, or conservatives (who are not known for their creative tendencies) will have to come up with a new metaphor. I trust that won’t happen…
RE: PKAmmoTroop #61:
maybe the libs just pretended to hate Bush to trick us into liking him. /wacko conspiracy
Then you’ve not met the conservatives I know.
As the proud owner or a tree-eating, CO2 emitting chipper/shredder, I suggest in lieu of “Throw X under the bus“:
Throw X in the woodchipper.
Put cement shoes on X. (in honor of the One’s Chicago way)
Feed X to the lions.
Lock X in the fridge.
Put X on the bench.
Feed X to the pirahnas. (007 reference)
Send X up the river.
You get the picture…
Only time will tell if one will stick.
Yeah and how many times has Barry changed his promises and twisted words around in his favor?
How about:
Feed X to the sharks with frickin lasers on their heads.
Feed X to the ill tempered sea bass?
Yea, we’re the one’s with no imagination. What about the leftard mantra? “It’s Bush’s fault!” That’s imagination for you.
Listen! You can still hear it.
Auggghhh! Proposed by a Republican?!? Move over BO let me have a turn at driving the bus.
Or more correctly: RINO.
It has only been a month, and so far Obama has managed to 1/2 destroy the country. This swindle us plan is bad enough, but states such as mine — CA — have now imposed higher taxes — sales tax, income tax, and now the car registration tax is doubled. So, Obama wants to come along and tax us once again for driving? He put that out there to see the reaction, and then quickly tabled the idea.
The next thing he has on the front burner is to let the Bush tax cuts expire — wonderful, let’s add another 4% to our taxes. Enough is enough.
Since when has simpleminded, jingoistic, simplistic, soundbite oriented, bumper sticker mentality been considered “creative” – I mean other than when it’s being repeated drone-like by a bunch of hirsuit Birkenstock wearing cronic unemployable Liberal women while they march topless in support of “rights” and “freedom” (read: “Gimme” and “WHAAAAA!”)
Hows this for creativity: Obama F****ed Up Again
Not the work of Thoreau but it will fit on any Volvo bumper, Chris Matthews may even figure it out, and it’s completely honest.
Creativity: “Obama Supporters – draggin our knuckles is just part of our mad skillz!!!”
Creativity: “Obama – we don’t even know what country he comes from, but we still worship him!”
Creativity “Obama – Taxpayer funded waygu for my posse is just the beginning!”
It’s not hard to be creative.
You obviously haven’t watched the Frontline video “The Hugo Chavez Show. If you had, you would know this is key function of the Secretaries. The Czars run things… Obama is just there to knock down unpopular trial balloons, and get NO blame.
Mileage plan under the bus?
But we were just ramping up for carbon dioxide regulations.
Oh, I’m so disappointed.
/
(BTW, the page is teh weirod for me, too. Comments are taking up the whole width and the “Related” bar is clear down under the typing box. It’s a bit disorienting.)
Wowwww … PKAT, I’m on a Remote — I really needed that!
Certainly that mental picture will keep any thought of The Urge de L’Amour at bey right through mid-tour! [grin]
Obama is making things up as he goes. He’s winging it. I think he is a master manipulator and a Chicago con. However, I do not believe he has the intelligence to deal with our economy, our enemies around the world…I mean the man is totally inept and I think he realizes it.
I’ve lived long enough to see presidents I agreed with, and those I didn’t because I didn’t like their politics, etc. Obama is in another catagory all together. Though I disagree with his world view and his politics, he is in another category because he’s an idiot.
Obama is smart. Book smart. He can read anything, and then be able to regurgitate in his own (or his speechwriters’) words. But it ends there.
Unfortunately (for those of us who have to live with this mistake) he has absolutely NO managerial, governing or business experience. He has never run a company, a city or anything in his entire life.
This lack of practical, common sense, business and economic experience is going to cause the US to go down the toiled by implementing poor and historically failed economic policies. He is being led around by his nose by his so-called “economic” advisors.
Those advisors are nothing more than socialistic liberal opportunists wanting to implement “fairness” and “justice” by redistributing wealth.
Wealth that probably won’t exist much longer if they have their way.
The Wheels on the bus go thump, thump, thump.
Pray tell us in what ways Obama is “better.” Include the past four weeks in your discussion.
White House to go black-out on Planet Earth Day??
Say it’s not true! Along with the Empire State building and the U.N., is the White House going to pull its power plug in “observance” of this upcoming Earth Day? I almost chucked my dinner seeing “E-Surance” commercials advocating this, and God knows what the schools are feeding the kids!
For me — I’m turning ALL my lights on Earth Day night so NASA satellittes will see not all swallow this Gullible Warming and Energy Drain bilge!
James Greenidge
Queens, New York
When is that monstrosity so I can leave all my lights on as well.
If there weren’t a burn ban, I’d burn something then too.
Aaaaaauuurrrgghhh!
Forgot the Question mark!
I’m sure the libs now think of me as an ignernt hick.
Ray LaHood’s idea is horrible… it would require a monitoring device be put in each car, or require annual inspections, Ireland style. No thanks. I’ll pay a tax before I start allowing the government to spy on my driving activities.
It’s gettin’ awful crowded under there. I hope that bus has really high axles.
Waitaminute…no I don’t