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This is a brilliant idea. We can all just stop driving. No more traffic accidents and no more car emmissions. No pollution. No ambulances. No food at the grocery store. No grocery store. No interstate commerce. No repair crews to fix our DSL service. No merchandise in the stores. No clothes. No shoes. Just lots and lots of no.

God, how does he do it?

They are doing this in Britain, aren't they? Just another way of herding us into the cattle cars of the high-speed train to nowhere.

So glad we elected an intellectual who can justify any method to tax us to death. Don't know why the elites who support him think their life will improve under this prick's leadership. People will rebel eventually and their trendy lives will go the way of misguided, greedy aristocracies & Leftist regimes throughout history. Go ahead, President Brilliance.. make our day.

This would be the straw that broke the camel's back. I fear you would see revolt in this country if the government was stupid enough to try this.

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No, I don't think so, not yet. It has to hurt more. We should have had these revolts back in Carter's time and we didn't. We should have had these revolts in FDR's time, and we didn't. We should have had these revolts in Wilson's day and we didn't. We have just been content enough with the crumbs they allotted to us. When at last they take those away, and we realize we are left with nothing, then maybe there will be a reunification, but even then, maybe not.
Far too many of our undocumented countrymen have no knowledge of their host's history, and too many of the rest of us are subsisting on the pittances we are granted by the kleptocrats who lord it over us.
You want a revolution? I'll give you a revolution: Forget the bunker mentality and hiding out with your guns and secret stash of gold and heirloom seeds. Get yourselves an army of heavily armed truckers in their 18-wheelers and block every single road into D.C. No traffic in or out. Starve the beast that feeds on us.

We already do this, and we have done it as long as there have been cars. It's called the gasoline tax. A mileage tax would effectively be an increase in the gasoline tax.

But there's more. A mileage tax punishes cars that get good mileage like hybrids and electric cars that don't use gasoline.

A mileage tax punishes cars that get good mileage like hybrids and electric cars that don't use gasoline.

When you put it like that, it makes me think that there would be a higher probability of punishing the sort of smug prick that would vote for Obama. I like the thought of that.

But it would necessarily see the installation of government tracking devices in citizen's cars. Nope, not worth it.

They have been talking about this for years in the Seattle area. The idea is to put a transponder on the cars and not just charge by the mile, but by the time of day and location. The real catch? Each account is tied to a credit card or checking account! Can you imagine the bonanza when that database is hacked?!