Big government wants, via technology and Leftists, to invade every portion of your world and your personal space which — they believe — is not yours to personalize.
I said it so here with regard to so-called “Progressive Insurance” and their “Snapshot” space invader whose sole goal was to part you from your cash whilst simultaneously crawling up your arshole. Please read that piece.
I also wrote about vehicle EDRs in 2012 with regard to their installation in your vehicle and their Big Brother-like intrusion into your life, here. Please read that article as well.
Which brings us to today, from the Los Angeles Times via Drudge:
A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue
The devices would track every mile you drive —possibly including your location — and the government would use the data to draw up a tax bill.
WASHINGTON — As America’s road planners struggle to find the cash to mend a crumbling highway system, many are beginning to see a solution in a little black box that fits neatly by the dashboard of your car.
The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit that information to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the outdated system for funding America’s major roads.
The usually dull arena of highway planning has suddenly spawned intense debate and colorful alliances. Libertarians have joined environmental groups in lobbying to allow government to use the little boxes to keep track of the miles you drive, and possibly where you drive them — then use the information to draw up a tax bill.
Libertarians are agreeing with this, according to the article’s author? If so, then I may be just about DONE with Libertarians. I was already done with so-called “environmental groups” who want to place you into a pine box and keep you from their sacred nature areas where the rattlesnakes and antelope play.
And, just like red light cameras it’s not about safety or ensuring your unimpeded progress over the road — it’s about the CASH.
“This really is a must for our nation. It is not a matter of something we might choose to do,” said Hasan Ikhrata, executive director of the Southern California Assn. of Governments, which is planning for the state to start tracking miles driven by every California motorist by 2025. “There is going to be a change in how we pay these taxes. The technology is there to do it.”
Here is what the government is really saying: we’ve provided so much money to the parasites in the states and the nation that we’ve discovered we must now slit the wrists of the American Taxpayer even deeper, so that their blood will flow in ever greater a gpm allegedly rebuild the infrastructure we’ve ignored for decades.
One further question: do you think that’s really where those dollars will go? Into a specific account for roads and highways? Or do you think those dollars will go into a general fund where the parasites will be able to demand more Free Cheese, ably delivered by their Leftist Rulers and spineless Republicans?
After all: “the technology is there to do it.”
BZ
