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A mileage-based tax can be assessed using the car's odometer. Adding a GPS is intended to allow the government to track your every move in cases where you disable or leave behind your cell phone.
It has nothing to do with tracking where you are, and trying to tax based on miles driven since so many people ride their bike or take buses while having a car for groceries and long trips (I do the same, best public transit in the country). It's been shot down repeatedly since 2003 which this article fails to mention. Most cell phones can't track where you are at, and those with GPS enabled don't send that data out...so if you call 911 I hope some one can tell them where you are.
The objective is already accomplished with a sales tax on gas.
How does this guy keep from being assaulted by the number of people whose intelligence he insults?
He's wearing a bow-tie, and in other hideous ways, looks like a Republican.
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