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01-11-2013, 08:19 PM | #51 | |
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Reduce the costs for repairing them where a day isnt 3 hrs of work and 5hs of break by a crew of 15 watching 4 people work.
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01-11-2013, 08:54 PM | #52 | |
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Charge it based on average total vehicle miles for a given vehicle type and charge it up front. Let people see what it costs up front, because people are apparently too dumb to understand anything else. Give it the full impact of the cost of heavy vehicles. If people still want a heavy vehicle, let them pay the costs. The "price of gas" would decrease, so you would "earn back" your payment through cheaper monthly outlay. This would be the least overall administration to also tax people based on what it actually costs. Screw incentivization of anything. The government is there to provide services for it's people, not to socially engineer them. You want an SUV and we have data that says that costs 4x as much to repair the roads as a sub-compact, you have to decide if your needs or wants are worth the cost. This kind of taxation works well for tire and e-waste recycling, where disposal and associated overhead costs are collected at time of purchase. There is already precedence for these kinds of things to be collected in an up-front manner. Last edited by Concillian; 01-11-2013 at 09:07 PM. |
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01-11-2013, 09:14 PM | #53 | |
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01-11-2013, 09:16 PM | #54 |
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Your two statements above are mutually exclusive. Your avg miles plan would provide an incentive to drive more by over-taxing those who drive less than the mean.
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01-11-2013, 09:17 PM | #55 | |
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01-11-2013, 09:32 PM | #56 | |
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That's an asinine argument. I'm going to drive however much I'm going to drive. I certainly wouldn't drive MORE just because I felt if I drove under the average that I wasn't getting my moneys worth. That's more gas, higher insurance, and a larger waste of time (daily driving on public roads is about as far from something I want to do as possible). It's a SERVICE to have access to the roads, unlimited, as they are. Same as insurance, same as internet, same as TV, same as lots of stuff. I don't want to see more crap converted to usage-based. Phone internet is bad enough. |
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01-11-2013, 09:42 PM | #57 | |
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01-11-2013, 09:47 PM | #58 |
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I think this whole tax based on mileage thing is flawed and requires too much administration on a yearly basis.
My answer is just to tax new vehicles with a road use tax based on the average life of the vehicle. Lets just say a vehicle uses 150k-200k miles on average before people get rid of them. When a new car dealer sells the vehicle, they charge the normal state tax and then a seperate tax based on the vehicle class, weight, size etc... This gets rolled into the car loan and is alot more absorbable to the buyer than the headache of paying a yearly mileage tax. It charges the road usage tax for the life of the vehicle and eliminate a ton of extra administration. The dealers wire the collected money to the federal account. Does anyone know how much money is needed for the road budget? Roughly 13 million passenger vehicles are sold in the U.S. every year. If the average tax is $300, than that's $3.9 billion added to the road budget. We aren't even counting big rigs. |
01-12-2013, 12:30 AM | #59 | |
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The issue is we sell it, or I should say Exxon and other oil Co. dont particularly care about the US and its economy. As long as the world market price is high and there is a market to sell it to they will. If we had the proper infrastructure to refine it, and more so if our government would put the smack down on the oil Co. only letting them sell it in house all our gas prices would be half if not less then what they are today. If gas prices go down then people inevitably have more money to spend nearly immediately. Long term the public would have more money as well because prices across all consumables will go down, because the cost of shipping goods and public transportation will go down. The larger issue IMO is the US and the world market for all things sold is not setup in a way to have the ability to support an exponential growth and profit scenario. Greed and the preservation of continuous profit are the major flaws. The system of manufacturing, selling, and consumers needs is far too large of a monstrosity to ever get truly solved. The issue would only be solvable in a Utopianistic society with ironclad rules that all people followed to the letter. This topic/debate will go on for a millennium unless we all ( the world ) decide to stop looking out for #1 and expecting even our most trusted friend to inevitably stab us in the back. |
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01-12-2013, 01:05 AM | #60 | |
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Not saying it's not a nice idea, but I'm going to guess running a business might not be your forte. |
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01-12-2013, 01:18 AM | #61 |
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Not saying that or at least not trying to say that.
Im all for profiting, its just that so much could be done to better our own country with the oil, the profits from it ect... Im just tired of seeing everything go to crap because of the last part of my above post. In the end I must default to my belief that there will never be a sound solution to all the madness until its all over. |
01-12-2013, 08:17 AM | #62 | ||
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01-12-2013, 08:46 AM | #63 | |
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Keep in mind that our fuel prices are like half of what the rest of the world pays. While we pay $3.50 a gallon, europe is paying $5 and japan is paying $6-7. We have damn cheap oil, and even with the same government subsidies, it's still hard to compete in our marketplace. You simply need massive volumes of oil to sell at those prices. With massive volume, you need massive local drilling and massive local refineries which we don't have. |
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01-12-2013, 09:49 AM | #64 | |
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In fact, I don't really get the difference between a mileage tax and gas tax, since gas tax is just a mileage tax paid a little differently. The only difference I can think of is that an increase in gas tax would keep encouraging people to drive more efficient cars and drive less, while a mileage tax would only encourage people to drive less. But then, it doesn't really matter much to me. My tank lasts me a month or more, and I ride a bike that gets 75mpg about 8 months out of the year. Gas tax or mileage tax, whatever. Don't care. I like the idea of a road tax built into the purchase of new cars. Automatically ensures that you can maintain the roads for that car over its lifetime. |
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01-12-2013, 10:33 AM | #65 |
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would you pay the road tax built into a car purchase when you purchase it used? I mean the total tax is included in the purchase price of a new car, but would you have to pay it again and again, each time the car is sold?
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01-12-2013, 10:37 AM | #66 |
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You have to pay sales/use tax on used vehicles that were already taxed in full to the original purchaser when bought new***8230; This is especially jarring for EVs that are exempt in many states from said sales tax only when new.
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01-12-2013, 12:56 PM | #67 |
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I just spent $18 to renew my driver's license (every 4 years); maybe that price should be hiked up to the $100-200 range. It would generate a little income. Feds need to figure out how to get a % of it, but that would probably be easier than tax by the mile?
Do burnouts & track days get taxed, or is there an exception to that? |
01-12-2013, 04:03 PM | #68 | |
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Why in the world would you charge people a road tax on a vehicle instead of taxing them based on the damage they do to roads. Fuel use is correlated to miles traveled and to vehicle mass. It is a darn good system actually. Sure advanced vehicles might mess with it, but they are a negligible part of the fleet still. |
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01-12-2013, 08:46 PM | #69 |
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I wouldn't think so. Over time that would just get built into the KBB value, but initially it would probably penalize low mileage owners.
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01-12-2013, 08:58 PM | #70 |
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I would rather see the gas tax over a built into price for cars.
Then again, I would rather see all the pork out of washington and use the plethora of money they already have. But we all know that aint gonna happen |
01-12-2013, 10:26 PM | #71 | ||
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You can only drive 11 hours total in a day. Once you start working you have 14 hours to finish your total driving. After you stop you need 10 hours off to restart your 14 hours. You can only work 70 hours total in 8 days. If you take off 34 consecutive hours you get a fresh 70/14 to start over. Every country is run by the trucking industry. 6-7 mpg all day long. |
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01-12-2013, 11:26 PM | #72 | |
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As for electronic log books, that may be true for larger 18 wheeler companies. I've seen more and more guys with computers in their rigs, using them to pull permits. But i also still have guys show up needing to use our fax machine to get their permits. Also my company for our F550/5500 series pickups used for commercial towing, we still fill out manual log books. I don't fudge mine because we usually don't need to get there in a hurry. |
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01-12-2013, 11:31 PM | #73 | |
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You see that's the beauty of a road use tax on new cars. You base the tax on the expected average lifespan of the vehicle, similar to the way they calculate lease rates based on the depreciation value. You factor in the weight, class, axles etc... and charge that to the new car buyer. So the road use tax has already been paid for that vehicle, so used car sales wouldn't have to pay it, but the resale value of a vehicle has that initial cost factored in. |
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01-13-2013, 12:26 AM | #74 | |
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Either way a tax based on miles is going to raise the price on everything. We add a fuel surcharge for every delivery even if its 1 case. |
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01-13-2013, 09:11 AM | #75 |
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Orange county already has a tax on gas that goes to fwy upkeep. Anyone notice when you leave the OC how the Fwy turns crappy? Not every county in the US has it and tracking our mileage is just another way to track drivers with their little black boxes. First it's to impose a tax, then it's speeding tickets based on how long it took you to get from point A to B... I'm fine with a tax on gas but that $ better go to our roads and not something stupid like raises for congress (who in my opinion should only be paid the avg for the region they represent!) or more gun control BS.
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