One man's mileage tax is another man's invasion of privacy is everyman's introduction to the scary world of Orwell's 1984.

There are some very compelling reasons for saving the newspaper business and some very compelling reasons for letting it go the way of the eight track tape. But good, and I qualify this, newspapers do something that the electronic media is incapable of doing for a myriad of reasons, one of which is the ability to report many stories accurately at one time without the injection of corporate or some moronic anchor's political bias, in other words 'just the facts ma'am.


One of those articles appeared this past week in one of the last remaining reasons why newspapers should NOT go away, The Wall Street Journal. There was a little article on page A5 under 'US Watch' about the proposed mileage tax. This idea is not getting any real fanfare by the administration because they haven't managed to come up with a spin to put out over the airwaves to their throngs of true believers that they can even swallow and support. I use the term airwaves because the majority of true believers are not readers and or thinkers, they get their propaganda via the airwaves in measured doses between commercials for male enhancement products and women fawning over dust mops.


Anyway, the idea of a mileage tax in the form being proposed may have the appearance of another revenue stream for the government but the darker side is a gross invasion of privacy and a further choke hold on personal freedom. Oh. did I mention that it is going to be an additional tax that will never make it to the road repair and maintenance funds but will end up in the general funds to pay for the stupid programs and excesses being instituted by the Obama administration. The above may be pure conjecture, however I would bet money that if the mileage tax makes it through, that the funds will never be used for their intended purpose.

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"We must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessities and our comforts, in our labors and our comforts, for our calling and our creeds....have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for another... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it's train wretchedness and oppression.

Thomas Jefferson
1743 - 1826 - US Founding father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President,
Source; Letter to Samuel Kercheval, Monticello, July 12, 1816

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