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I told you so, Part XIV: “A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue”

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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to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the outdated system for funding America’s major roads.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

 

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Grayson’s comparison: the TEA Party to the KKK and cross burnings

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TEA Party Grayson Cross BurningAlan Mark Grayson, the United States Representative for Florida’s 9th congressional district and a member of the Democratic Party, is quite a hateful man.

The 55-year-old Grayson, whose wife is named Lolita (apparently a tribute to Nabokov, if you can manage to paste that image into your wheelhouse), has made it clear that the TEA Party equates to the KKK and cross burnings.

From the OrlandoSentinel.com:

Grayson compares Tea Party to KKK

October 22, 2013

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson is ruffling feathers again — this time with a fundraising appeal that compares the tea-party movement to the Ku Klux Klan.

In a campaign email sent Monday, the Orlando Democrat includes the transcript of an interview he did recently on MSNBC in which Grayson said that the politics of the government shutdown had turned many Americans away from the tea party.

Further:

“At this point, the tea party is no more popular than the Klan,” Grayson said.

The email then takes that comparison one step further by including a photograph of a burning cross with Klansmen in the background. The cross then becomes the “T” in the words “Tea Party” transposed over the picture. Below is the caption: “Now you know what the ‘T’ stands for.”

And the understanding and smoothing and licking and grooming of the Leftists goes on and on and on.

Because there is no greater an inclusive group than Leftists nationwide.

BZ

 

 

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Thanks for supporting the Orwellian Police State:

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First, watch the video, then have your hands available to catch your jaw when it drops:

Now, a bit of reflection, with a large dose of reality mixed in by necessity.

In summary up front: this is precisely why the United States of America exists in its current condition, on the cusp of total bankruptcy, dissolution and revolution.

The painfully-stupid American voter.

Because these are painfully-stupid people.  They are likely products of the American public school system in larger metropolitan areas — as in this venue, San Diego.

They are people who may have been — hopefully — “educated” (although there is a galaxy’s worth of difference between education and actual learning) but they clearly lack critical thinking and listening skills.

These are the people who voted for Barack Hussein Obama because he is, frankly, black — and it is high time that a “black man” be installed in DC as president. Caucasoids voted for Obama because they are GOWPs: Guilty, Overeducated White People.  Blacks — both dead and alive — voted for Obama because their sole issue was melanin count.  Both aspects are indeed racist in nature for having done just so.

These people didn’t vote for Obama because there is a known component of the man’s philosophy and background, not because he has a long and storied past of training, education and experience with many aspects of the American Experience itself.  Not because he has labored long and hard as a worker, doing physical jobs, then menial jobs, then promoted due to efficiency and prowess, then awarded promotions due to illuminating ideas and creative applications.  He hasn’t worked one day in private business.  He hasn’t had to make a payroll.  He hasn’t had to balance one professional budget.  He has been petted and licked and groomed from so-called “community organizer” right into the oval office of the currently re-named Spite House.

He is the man who refuses to release his college transcripts, whom no one seems to recall attending any actual classes, who may actually not be born in the United States, who is completely opaque,

Obama has managed to out-Bush Mr. Bush in terms of spending, military incursions, drone strikes and the issuance of bills and EOs promoting oppression of the American people.

And we wonder why we are in our current state?

DC LampreyYes, certainly, it’s the Political Lampreys in DC.

But it’s also the people clearly displayed in the above video.

“We.”

The “People.”

BZ

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