Written By : John Hawkins

The Obama Administration’s hunger for your money and desire to control your life is absolutely insatiable. The newest thing up for discussion by Team Lenin? Taxing you by the mile.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he wants to consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they burn — an idea that has angered drivers in some states where it has been proposed.

Gasoline taxes that for nearly half a century have paid for the federal share of highway and bridge construction can no longer be counted on to raise enough money to keep the nation’s transportation system moving, LaHood said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles that they traveled,” the former Illinois Republican lawmaker said.

Most transportation experts see a vehicle miles traveled tax as a long-term solution, but Congress is being urged to move in that direction now by funding pilot projects.

The idea also is gaining ground in several states. Governors in Idaho and Rhode Island are talking about such programs, and a North Carolina panel suggested in December the state start charging motorists a quarter-cent for every mile as a substitute for the gas tax.

A tentative plan in Massachusetts to use GPS chips in vehicles to charge motorists by the mile has drawn complaints from drivers who say it’s an Orwellian intrusion by government into the lives of citizens. Other motorists say it eliminates an incentive to drive more fuel-efficient cars since gas guzzlers will be taxed at the same rate as fuel sippers.

That’s just what our country needs: a new tax for everyone with a car AND giving the government the capability to track where you are driving. Maybe they can add a little TV screen on it so one of Dear Leader’s workers can watch to make sure you aren’t talking on a cell phone or fiddling with the radio while you’re driving.

Oh, I’ve got it. They can create a little Bobblehead Obama computer to monitor your miles. That way, it’ll be like he’s right there, in the car with you, watching you as you drive (Actually, it’ll be a government worker created through one of his jobs programs watching you, but same effect). Then, every few hours, Bobblehead Obama can repeat one of his inspirational speeches from the campaign about hope and change to inspire all you bitter clingers out there to change your ways. And, the best part of all, is that it will only add $700 to the cost of buying a car. That’s a small price to pay for giving the government more of your money AND getting to hear more from Obama, isn’t it?

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