Re: Making ALL Roads Into TOLL Roads

From: Jack May (jack.may_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/27/04


Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:39:24 GMT


"Bill 2" <asdf@asdf.com> wrote in message
news:Ov4qd.186392$Np3.7576634@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...

> Personally I think they should just record the odometer reading at annual
> inspections, multiply by a factor according to the GVWR so the price you
> pay
> is dependant on the distance and the vehicle weight. I suppose you could
> add
> another factor in there to take into account the type of fuel used, to
> encourage fuel efficient vehicles, but I guess the tax on the fuel covers
> that.

In some places like LA about a quarter of the cars are not inspected, not
registered, and not licensed. It is easy to get counterfeit registration
stickers or scrape them off of other cars. I think, but not sure, that
this is common among illegal immigrants.

Obviously the tax would not be paid on these cars.



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