President Barack Obama on Friday rejected his transportation secretary's suggestion that the administration consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive instead of how much gasoline they buy.So put the paving stones back... for now, anyway.
"It is not and will not be the policy of the Obama administration," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters, when asked for the president's thoughts about Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's suggestion, raised in an interview with The Associated Press a [day] earlier.
In the meantime, I need to formulate a response to Dave's comment to yesterday's post. I'll get back to you on that.
2 comments:
I hope that sort of idea doesn't come to Britain
I didn't see this bird flying anyway; like the mythical Flat Tax that occasionally comes up (and just as quickly gets shot down), in order to be equivalent in revenue the VMT would have to be so high as to be unworkable.
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