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Will pay-per-mile be a buzzkill for American road trips?
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So, what kind of money are we talking about here?

Translated into dollars and cents, fuel taxes cost each vehicle owner about $250 a year on average. According to a University of Iowa study, paying that amount on a per-mile basis would come to about 1.6 cents per mile.

Whether it is paid for through fuel taxes or taxing per-mile, it's clear the federal highway fund is in trouble.

By the end of 2012, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the fund will "be unable to meet its obligations in a timely manner" unless Congress injects even more life support from the general Treasury.

read it all:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/18/travel/pa ... ?hpt=hp_c1

One thing that would help. Why not check up on the amount being paid to some of these contractors. And why (in some cases) are flag people being paid $35 an hour? It seems that when it is tax money paying for things the mind for a budget and common sense goes out the window.

Nervous Wreck wrote:Will pay-per-mile be a buzzkill for American road trips?
snip:

So, what kind of money are we talking about here?

Translated into dollars and cents, fuel taxes cost each vehicle owner about $250 a year on average. According to a University of Iowa study, paying that amount on a per-mile basis would come to about 1.6 cents per mile.

Whether it is paid for through fuel taxes or taxing per-mile, it's clear the federal highway fund is in trouble.

By the end of 2012, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the fund will "be unable to meet its obligations in a timely manner" unless Congress injects even more life support from the general Treasury.

read it all:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/18/travel/pa ... ?hpt=hp_c1

Maybe they should ask this family to help us out?

Now that, to me, is a real Entrepreneur. (ALSO, BECAUSE OF THEIR FATHERS DEATH, ALL OF THE KIDS WILL COLLECT
SOCIAL SECURITY UNTIL THEY ARE 18) EVEN BETTER...IF "FLAIR'S" THIRTEEN BROTHERS & SISTERS FOLLOWED HIS ENTREPRENEURIAL STRATEGY--THAT'S AN ADDITIONAL $1.3 MILLION PER YEAR BUT WAIT...THERE'S MORE! IF ALL THIRTEEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS CAN DUPLICATE HIS FEAT OF 9 WELFARE STRATEGISTS THAT BREEDS 117 NEW RECIPIENTS COLLECTING $100,000/YR!!...OR AN ADDITIONAL $11,700,000PER YEAR... &THAT'S ONE d@mn FAMILY (And demands 100% the Taxes Paid by 1,000 avg. taxpayers)


And THAT is why this once great country is BANKRUPT!!Nervous Wreck
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