Well, taxation everywhere. We know that in best can we get 50 cent of value for every tax dollar. We need a simple tax code not a myriad of them to make us all confused. VAT nothing else is one way. Probably are many other ways.
On Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 15:28 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Also buying miles would be a local transaction which would ensure the >> funds go to the state in which the vehicle is mostly driven. >> > > Rather similar to buying gasoline in Georgia or South Carolina as you > drive north. > > A cell phone knows what State you are in. It adjusts the local time. It > could pay whatever State you happen to be in when you "recharge" the > mileage. > > The only problem with these schemes is they would require new hardware in > automobiles. My first suggestion, reading the odometer once a year, could > be done with existing cars. For that reason, perhaps both schemes could be > implemented at first, with the annual odometer method phased out when the > entire fleet of cars is replaced. In Georgia, they used to have annual > emissions tests that required dynamometers. Around 1990 they began > connecting to the automobile computer instead, and no longer needed > dynamometers. By 2015 or so, there were only a few dynamometers left in > Atlanta. My car needed one, so I had to drive to a seedy neighborhood > downtown once a year. They phased out the requirement for cars over 25 > years old, then that car abruptly died. I miss it . . . > >
