There’s a Plan to Tax You for the Ability to Use Roads

If there’s one aspect of this trend that might redeem this tax for conservatives, maybe it’s the fact that it will affect all the Tesla drivers currently getting away with murder. But it’s still going to terrorize Glenn Beck for a different reason.

“Most formulations of the VMT fee involve electronic monitoring of vehicle miles traveled, and voters resist any kind of electronic monitoring by government entities, and the NSA fiasco is a good illustration of why,” Zane told me, adding, “It’s become radioactive.”

It’s not clear how this is going to work. Which sounds better: Someone from the government poking their head in and reading your odometer, or a gizmo installed on your car that monitors how much you drive?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *