Roman idea wins-trailers, but not among motorists
Tax motorists based on the number of kilometres they?
The concept is gaining currency to think outside-the-box public as a means of strengthening Hängebrüsten coffers transport during the elimination of political unpopular tax on gasoline. But it may be an idea that only a policy wonk could love.
“It is absolutely horrible,” said Nancy Mooslin, an artist, divides her time - and drives - between downtown Los Angeles and Newport Beach.
“It is crazy that I have ever heard,” said Judy Heiser, manages a service station in North Hollywood.
This week, talk-show gewackelt languages and e-mail lists buzzed with the message that Joan Borucki appointed Monday Dir Arnold Schwarzenegger to head the California Department of Motor Vehicles, the state to examine to what extent the monitoring of motorists and the taxes they drive accordingly.
It is not only the legal profession. Among transportation planners, similar proposals in abundance: The state of Oregon is developing a pilot program for satellite tracking in cars, appliances to monitor the performance and taxes on it; prepares l Germany, to do something similar.
On the orders of the Congress of the U.S. Transportation Research Board, a committee recently formed to ways of promoting efficiency in relation to the roads without a gasoline tax. Just this week, members met in consultation with a pro-Mile Road user fees for the USA.
“This is not an idea taken lightly,” said Martin Wax, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley, said that 88 kilo-meters from the tax money experiments have been conducted in the world. “It is revolutionary.”
In California, Schwarzenegger is the management officials quickly pointed out, there is no active proposal for the conversion of such a system. Even if the idea gets across the stage, speak, it would face enormous obstacles in the legislature, where legislators are reluctant to introduce new taxes and keenly aware of privacy.
In response to a question at a press conference held earlier in the week, Schwarzenegger said he did not know enough about the performance fee to comment.
Borucki will not comment. But this year, as chairman of the transportation section of the Government for the reform of the state study of the California Performance Review, she urged the state to develop a pilot program for taxing motorists based on the number of kilo - metre drive.
On its face, control seems simple: If you’ve followed, in which people walk, they can be free for the use of roads, and money for construction and repair of roads and highways. Some supporters have even one time, global positioning systems, transport management, signalling a public database, if a driver of the car was rush hour, and pricing of the person concerned as a driver more , Travel off-peak hours.
It is through networking with the automatic tracking with appareil’s odometer. If a driver went to fill the reservoir, the costs would be more gas prices.
Signatories, whose ranks scientists, urban planners and many transportation leaders, say the tax on gasoline has not kept pace with inflation. The tax was Stuck at 18 cents per gallon in California since 1994, and additional fees of Confederation, but also for 18 cents. And as cars and trucks are saving more fuel, it could become more difficult to gather sufficient resources for road transport construction costs.
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