Electric Vehicles? Towing? Hauling?
There seems to be quite a push lately for zero emission vehicles and electric only vehicles. How on Earth would these ever work for us? You can't go cross country in an electric vehicle in a pra...
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fj12ryder wrote:
And who will pay for all this additional taxation enforcement?
take a guess. big brother keeps getting bigger. so now i may be forced to prove a negative...that i didn't drive X miles in my home state.
wait! i know!! each state will setup border checkpoints automatically reading my odometer and by definition my identity thus tracking my movements. i'll get an annual bill or more likely it will just be deducted from my bank account like a toll for driving in a different state. big brother will know my whereabouts but of course this knowledge will be kept confidential, right?
i agree that EV owners need to pay an equivalent road-upkeep tax. each state already knows how much tax they now collect and how many gassers are registered in the state. one divided by the other gets a per-car average. each EV owner would be taxed that average amount. some problems with this as well but it doesn't require a massive bureaucracy, state agents and intrusive govt surveillance to work. of course the other problem is forcing the state to actually spend the dollars collected for the intended purpose.
