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11/19/2004 Archived Entry: "DMV Director Supports Taxing Drivers by the Mile"

Posted by steve @ 04:32 AM EST [Link]

BIG MOTHER? MEET BIG BROTHER!: California's new DMV director is certainly ambitious. She wants to marry privacy destroying technology in a quest to charge drivers for the miles they drive.

Joan Borucki has said she favors placing tracking devices on vehicles and then taxing drivers for the miles they drive. She says that as more drivers buy cars that get better gas mileage, the state is taking in less money from its gas tax. Even though Californians are driving more than ever, revenues are down nearly 10 percent.

And people wonder why conservatives and libertarians hate government.

Read on.