Massachusetts May Tax Residents Per Mile Driven (Chips to be Installed in Inspection Stickers)
Last November the voters of Massachusetts had the chance to repeal the state income tax but the measure failed by about 70%-30% if my memory serve me. The special interests in Massachusetts were able to use scare tactics to convince the voters that repealing the income tax would be irresponsible. These groups claimed that if the tax was repealed that the state would be forced to either raise other taxes or fire police and fire fighters.
But once the governor saw that 70% of the people didn’t mind paying taxes, all bets were off. The people have shown that taxes are acceptable to them and now the governor is ready to fleece the people of Massachusetts for all that he can. On top of paying that income tax Massachusetts is considering many more taxes on top of the income tax. There are proposals to tax soda, candy bars, flavored water, toll increases, and gas tax increases to name a few. The governor is also trying to follow his subjects over the New Hampshire border by unconstitutionally trying to make New Hampshire businesses charge Massachusetts resident a sales tax for anything that they buy in New Hampshire. More on the governor following Massachusetts residents in a moment.
The governor is proposing as much as a 29 cent gas tax increase that would make the Massachusetts gas tax far and away the highest in the nation. But buried in this article about the possible gas tax increase is a very interesting tidbit about another plan that the governor has to tax his loyal subjects.
Patrick is also considering a new system that would charge drivers based on the miles they travel. Those trips would be measured by a chip installed in a vehicle inspection sticker.
Somehow the fact that the governor of Massachusetts wants to put a chip in the inspection stickers of Massachusetts resident’s cars only rates one paragraph in the entire article buried towards the end.
Governor Deval Patrick isn’t content with taxing the people of Massachusetts for just about everything that they do or buy in his state, he wants to follow them over the border and tax them on what they buy out of state, and he wants to just follow them and tax them for wherever they decide to go-period.
This is the sad state of affairs in Massachusetts, and the country in general. This is not the first state to talk about implementing a tax on miles driven and it won’t be the last. Once this idea gets noticed around the country more and more states will try to implement it, and why stop there? A federal tax on miles driven would naturally be next. President Obama will want in on the deal.
But Massachusetts residents have nobody to blame but themselves as they voted in favor of paying taxes last November when they refused to send a message to the governor. Actually they did send a message to the governor, it was the wrong message, it was the message that if some taxes are good, more taxes must be better. That is not a wise idea when you have a tax and spend liberal in charge of the state. Massachusetts residents gave Deval Patrick and inch and now he is taking a mile– literally.
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I had forgotten about this, I heard it a few weeks ago. They did cover it a little bit on morning talk radio. Todd Feinberg was talking about it. Hopefully it would be too expensive/complicated to implement. Hopefully.
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Nothing is too expensive on the taxpayer’s dollar.
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First of all.. I did not vote for this loser. And those who did are complete idiots.
I knew he would tax the heck out of us.
I also voted to end state taxes. For those of you who did not… you should be ashamed because this is your fault……. Period!
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If this is to be fairly implemented, attention would be paid to the primary argument for it, namely that wear and tear on the roads would be better compensated, since vehicles are becoming more efficient and use less fuel. Therefore, the weight of the vehicle with its cargo, and the speed at which it was driven must be calculated if that argument were to be served fairly and effectively. Are we getting ridiculous enough to show the folly of this proposal? This idea is simply silly, but then . . . . what did we expect
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But because vehicles are more fuel efficient they use less gas and if they use less gas than the government makes less money leading directly to this idea. It is a giant circle.
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