Oregon Becomes First State To Implement Per-Mile Road Tax
First into Bondage! Oregon leads the way! We have never seen a tax we didn't like! A holes.
I drive 1736 miles a month to work, @ 38 mpg I spend $13.70 a month. Were I stupid enough to do this rip off, (at the low, low price of 1.5cents per rutted, potholed mile next to beautiful bike lanes built with gas tax money) I would "give" or "donate" to the State of ineptitude 26.04. Only a 100% tax increase? I get a high mileage car because I do not want to cdonate to gas price manipulating oil companies, so now I get to give Oregon the equivelant of 60 cents a gallon in Road Tax because I don't "waste" enough gas for them? But now I can pay an additional 30 cents a gallon for eco friendly fuel that some Dumbocrap thought I "needed" to use so we could "support the alternate fuel industry" that gave so frickin much to them the last election they stole? DO NOT, DO NOT allow your state to go down this road, unless you own a 5 gallon a mile PU or something.
I drive 1736 miles a month to work, @ 38 mpg I spend $13.70 a month. Were I stupid enough to do this rip off, (at the low, low price of 1.5cents per rutted, potholed mile next to beautiful bike lanes built with gas tax money) I would "give" or "donate" to the State of ineptitude 26.04. Only a 100% tax increase? I get a high mileage car because I do not want to cdonate to gas price manipulating oil companies, so now I get to give Oregon the equivelant of 60 cents a gallon in Road Tax because I don't "waste" enough gas for them? But now I can pay an additional 30 cents a gallon for eco friendly fuel that some Dumbocrap thought I "needed" to use so we could "support the alternate fuel industry" that gave so frickin much to them the last election they stole? DO NOT, DO NOT allow your state to go down this road, unless you own a 5 gallon a mile PU or something.
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Agree, train unions and pork-politics killed them, but now the Teamsters keep trucking artificially affordable.
Roads that is freeways led to UPS then add aircraft which replaced trains and ships, computers, and a new phone system with a real long distance ability led to Amazon and bingo todays order is in your house tomorrow. Trains are only part of the system and like Russia we need to fix what is broke.
So when are trains most useful?
Like loads to like destinations.
Use of shipping containers from China to LA to Baltimore.
When there are tracks in place
when the price of truck fuel surpasses trainfuel ha ha they are both diesel.
When the industry and it's unions out weigh the trucking version and regain what it lost in the early fifties.l
I don't buy gas and just as very very little amount of diesel.
I make my own electricity.
No House no property tax.
Vehicle licensing down to $150 year.
No newspaper, no tv reception, no tv, no wifi that I pay for.
About $10 a month for a cell phone.
This year I have a tax refund but not too big which is good. I didn't lose much buying power that way.
When i use the dock I pay $400 a month and get electricity, garbage, water, Divide by30 multiply by number of days. The rest of the time I go fishing, diving, or kayaking or......
Life is SOOOOOOOOO hard.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xjxxy93sC...
Yes indeed. Nothing about it makes any sense. Unions funded by government contracts. The local townships want more revenue via property taxes so the system is rigged. Family farmers stop farming, re-zone their land for residential and sell, so people build McMansions in new subdivisions with more streets the gov't can't afford to maintain... food prices go up and we become more dependent on large agro-corps in places like the San Fernando valley where they get droughts... what a roller coaster... We are all being taken for a ride. "Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan
Regards,
O.A.
It's the same everywhere I drive. Two tree cutting crews, plus the chippers, and they are all standing around having a smoke, shooting the breeze, traffic piles up, and they eventually deign to allow cars to pass. After the mandatory 15 minute break, of course.
I used to go on loooong rides many years ago. Loved it!
and effective it is. . now, we're sending a carrier
to Yemen to "keep sea lanes open" instead of
confronting Iran's expansion and control of yet
another country. -- j
p.s. . my family has a cabin in the country with
a jet pump 300-plus feet down; ; ; the generator
is here at our house, though. . but it trucks well
in the baja mini-pickup!
and my sister had a thoroughbred at a friend's farm.
we needed to do the daily hay, water and feed thing
and my 77 jeep cherokee chief was "it" for the
adventure. . we found everything and made it
fine, but there were trials and tribulations -- and
a scar on the left rear corner -- which left us in awe
of mama nature!!! -- j
p.s. . Lots Of Good Four Wheel Drive Time!!!
Thanks for the mammaries.
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