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I don't understand how this would be any better than the gas tax in place. As others have said, the current gas tax already has people who use more resources paying more in taxes. Plus the gas tax is universally collected. It seems like around here I see a lot of cars that are unregistered, or have expired tags or out of state tags, or even quite a few vehicles with Mexico license plates. I'm guessing quite a few of those people that are paying gas taxes now every time they fill up will be able to avoid the mile based taxes. Also how would it work if I go on a road trip out of state? Do I get a separate bill from each state I drove through at the end of the year? And how much will this cost to implement, providing tracking devices for every vehicle in the country? Look how expensive the digital television transition has been, I would think this would be many times greater. All in all just a giant bureaucracy created to eliminate a perfectly good, fair system with a much more expensive, cumbersome system that ultimately doesn't accomplish anything new.
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