The US Government, heretofore known as 'gummint' wants to tax you on the amount of miles you drive in the course of a year.
As the gummint has been pushing and pushing for more fuel efficient vehicles, ostensibly to solve that unproven bugaboo known as global warming, it has found its coffers depleted due to dwindling gasoline taxes. You see, people are spending less on a tank of gas when they switch from their 3/4-ton Ford pickup to a Honda Civic. It doesn't take as much fuel to fill up the smaller car, so fewer gallons equals less tax revenue for the tax-and-spend whores in the gummint.
So now, they are advertising a road user study on the radio with the promise to pay over $800 to each person who takes part in the study. For more information, go here: roaduserstudy.org.
They will install a computer - most likely a GPS system - onto the subject's car and then track how many miles the person drives in a given time period.
You shouldn't allow this to happen. Here's why.
When the gummint finally decides to tax you by the mile, they will most likely require that you have a tracking device installed on your vehicle. If they can track your mileage, they can also track where you go.
This should be especially loathsome to all those folks who complained about invasion of privacy with the Patriot Act. But somehow, I don't think we'll get any complaints from them.
I just don't.
