More Taxes, Big Brother

Just when you're wondering, in only the first month of the Obama Administration, how your life could get any worse, any more taxed, any more programmed, any more monitored, how government could be any more intrusive -- ?

Well, here's how:

The system would require all cars and trucks be equipped with global satellite positioning technology, a transponder, a clock and other equipment to record how many miles a vehicle was driven, whether it was driven on highways or secondary roads, and even whether it was driven during peak traffic periods or off-peak hours.

Obama's new Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he wants to tax drivers predicated upon how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they use. He said on Friday:

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.

Who would pay for this mandatory equipment? You would. But that's simply the tip of the iceberg. Do what BZ calls The Logical Extension. Always do The Logical Extension.

Consider that this is wonderful for our government in any number of glorious ways:

- It would increase taxes on drivers. More money for government to spend foolishly;

- It would tend to keep some people out of their cars for two reasons:

* To avoid extra cash paid

* To help keep their individual privacy

- It would begin to accomplish true Enviro Social Engineering:

* To "help" people think their cars were the source of their problems than their answers to transportation;

- Furthermore, with GPS your very activities could be tracked;

- Your driving habits, locations, tendencies would be archived;

- Technologically, you could easily be aurally monitored;

- Automobile insurance companies would skyrocket your rates;

* Your speeds would be monitored;

* Do you accelerate too quickly?

* Do you brake too suddenly?

* Does this result in more abuse to the car your insurance company is covering?

* Do you even remotely roll through any stop sign?

* Do you tailgate? Correlations could be made between your vehicle and any so-equipped vehicle surrounding you;

* Do you drive in dangerous areas? Times? Tendencies? Higher rates;

* Do you drive in congested areas? Higher rates;

* Are you wearing your seat belt at every second? Higher rates;

* Now, very easy for your insurance company to completely cancel you;

* Information to be shared between companies;

- Police jurisdictions:

* Now, very easy to document you running a stop sign, a red light, one MPH over the limit;

* ANY violation of any vehicle code in your state;

* Money generation for each and every police agency you happen to visit, instantly;

- Even further, information from this system shared from government to:

* Your automobile insurance company: easy to be canceled;

* Your Life insurance company: determined by Risk Managers that you are a risk;

* Your Health insurance company: determined by their Risk Managers that you are a risk;

And, of course, it would be easy to track you, 24/7, by way of your vehicle. Your routes, your routines, where you stop, do you consistently roll through a Jack-In-The-Box? Ah, that would mean your lifestyle is compromised -- time to jack up your Health insurance.

Think about this, ladies and gentlemen. I am not a loon, for if I can think of these things now, various other entities -- governmental and private -- are already rubbing their hands with glee, pondering the potentials of this new technology. You would be a true Sheeple, used only for two things:

1. A source of revenue from many directions;

2. A way for companies -- mostly of the insurance variety -- to divest themselves from you.

Government considers you, the producer, the provider, the person of sufficient affluence to own a vehicle (oh my God, do you own more than one vehicle?) as nothing more than a vein to tap, to monitor, to use like a Kleenex. No privacy. None. If government can do a thing, it will do a thing. And anything government does is seldom if ever reversible.

To Big Government, a new and budding Socialist Government, you are nothing more than a cow. If we chip your car, you will be chipped next. You. Your person.

You let this go, you just bend over, plans for Phase II Chipping procedures will commence.

I can hear you say: BZ, now you're the Moonbat.

Oh really? Well, just sit back, relax and do nothing. Government will "take care" of you.

We'll see, won't we?

BZ