This is not a mileage tax! THIS IS A TRACKING PLAN! The term ‘mileage tax’ is just a cover!

I call: R I N O.

He’s a professional race-baiter. For the clues, read the #s 206, 208, 212. Its especially funny where he says he *didn’t* say what he said 2posts prior. Short attention span combined w/poor reading comp skills, I guess.

Then, his last post he *generously* shares the blame his mindset alone fosters! How magnanimous! Just like a Lib: all you have is theirs to take, all they do wrong the blame is yours — except for the magnanimous ones, they’ll tell you its everybody’s fault (…and therefore nobody’s…)

Karnold:
#211…
all that can be said is a hushed, awestricken “wow!”

You’d do a public service to generalize that post, add references, and convert it into a flyer. More people’s eyes would open than you could count. I’m serious. This isn’t empty praise.

Actually, there are 3 or 4 people here, that if I wasn’t a poor broken-down ex-Col. I’d gather in a room, lock the door, and pay handsomely to produce flyers — just like Thomas Paine & others did so long ago. We *really* need that…

Good luck with that.

Is I explained on Hot Air, if you want to maintain revenue stream as non-gasoline powered vehicles displace gas tax revenue, you don’t have to buy an expensive satellite system with a bazillion transponders, that leaves the citizenry believing the government is spying on them. All you do is record the mileage each year when the tag/sticker is renewed, put the mileage in a relational data base, and automatically print out a bill that is part of the tag fee. Simple engineering solution. Cars come with odometers (imagine that). Tag agents issue tags by VIN numbers. Tag agents are already employed. Tag agents have computers connected to a central system. Most computers now come with an Excel-type database. A highschool student from Pine River could do the program.

There is nothing stupider than a bureaucrat or politician after revenue, except the stupid people that re-elect them. Of course, any state that would elect Ventura, Ellison, and possibly Franken is filled with some pretty stupid people.

I love Minnesota, great fishing. What I don’t understand is the people I know and meet while there are all pretty smart. You must have lookouts hiding the stupids when I come by.

We realize that in the future, cars aren’t going to be powered by fuel, probably,” said Gov. Tim Pawlenty

Hey, c’mon now! Ever hear of the “Flintstones?”

And that idea LBJ had of replacing fathers with checks from the government, that’s just done *wonders* for the underclass, hasn’t it?

That old idea of welfare that prospered from the 60s through the Reagan and BushI years was a hot mess. I’m glad Clinton signed a bill to change it. I’m glad certain measures are still in place strictly for the children.

#211:
You raise good points, but government aid to children in distress has done some good, and changed lives. The problems are too big for government to be the cure all. Your reliance on charities can still be pursued through grassroots organization, depite a financial crunch. Your side doesn’t even try such a grassroots organizational method, but rather tell the needy to “go find a charity, I give, I’ve helped”. It’s not organized, and the problem is to big to solve without organization.
In regard to your historical cultural points; we don’t have a time machine, and we have to “dance with the girl we brought”. There’s a reality we have to face. Neither side is all right, or all wrong.

Enough of this. I got basketball to watch.

peace out.

If charities are such an answer, we really shouldn’t have the problems of abuse and poverty we have in this country…

And we didn’t for decades. Before the Depression, the lowest crime rate in New York was in Harlem. Hospitals, caring for the poor, teaching children, was all done better by private citizens and charities before the systemization of Welfare under FDR, the War on Poverty, and the Nannystate.

Did you really just type that? Believe it or not there are cycles of this involved, and it’s not something that just gets “fixed” without recources in the way of counseling, intervention, and guess what, that cost MONEY.

First, historically non-existent prior to sixty years ago. Your “cycles” are a modern invention, the result of the breakdown of the family and of rugged individualism. Your “cycles” are recent – the result of children having children, without being raised by their own parents to be adults; the result of the sexualization of popular culture; the result of catastrophic societal upheaval. Mankind survived without your intervention and your counseling for thousands of years, and Western culture for much of that.

And your intervention and your counseling and your government programs do NOTHING. The places where the greatest focus of these programs has been – Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York – is where the epidemic is the worst. Visit the Detroit public schools.

Big government programs have crowded out charities, and increasing taxation has transferred resources from private charities and remedies as people can afford to give less. The proposal to disallow tax deductions for charitable giving will exacerbate this. Big Government is bound and determined to have a monopoly in this sector.

Conservatives typically want poor unwanted children to be born into crappy, decadent, impoverished, and often abusive households

I know of no conservative who thinks this way. But the liberal left seems to enjoy subsidizing poverty and promoting unrestrained sexuality to an extent that guarantees more children being born into these conditions. (If they are lucky enough to even be born at all.)

Go down to your local inner cities and rural areas, and start your charity drives to solve the problem of abuse and neglect. Who needs social workers right? Any fool can know that charity is great, but kids in this country would be even worse off without government intervention. I beg of you to prove me wrong and organize charity drives in every ghetto and rural shackville to the point where, folks stop abusing their kids, all the kids have meds/shots/surgeries, all the kids have food and diapers, and all of the kids are generally safe. Please prove me wrong, and make this utopia of mass charity a reality to the point where govt. aid is unnecessary.

I’ll wait. It the mean time, I’ll do my job, and be thankful that liberals put their votes and tax money behind the rhetoric.
Save the babies, said Marvin Gaye.