Finding New Taxes

Politicians work HARD to find new ways to tax us, and the situation in Oregon is a good example: Now, instead of taxing you on the number of gallons of gas you use, they’re looking at taxing you on the number of MILES you travel. People are driving less these days, and buying more fuel-efficient cars. Politicians urge that kind of thing, in their incompetence never seeing the loss of revenue that causes. Then when they get desperate for money, they find new ways to tax us. Motorists will still pay the federal gas tax and how long will it be before Oregon re-institutes the gas tax in ADDITION to the per mile tax.? Notice the Oregon government is dominated by DEMOCRATS, Taxpayers are concerned with the possibility the state could keep track on where they go, since one of the methods is GPS-based. Another problem is the$200 per vehicle cost of the equipment required to keep track of the miles. Will the state pay for that, of will the taxpayer? So far, it is the taxpayer, of course (We can't expect the STATE to pay for that stuff, can we?). Another problem with the current system they never considered is that electric car drivers pay NO gas tax. And I doubt they’ll clamor to sign up. The last paragraph in the story is patently untrue. It says that state governments don’t like to institute new taxes. Makes me wonder what the writer has been smoking. And lookie here! The source is Fox. Is anybody else covering it? (Fox News Politics)