Oregon - GPS in your car??

[jimwsea]

I bought tires about 3-4 years ago and I was given DOT cards to fill out for each tire ("in case of recall"). I balked at that, and maybe many others did, because the next time I bought tires, they were filling out the cards for me. I had to ask about the cards because they did not mention them.

RFID chip in tire + info on the car and the owner + chip readers along the highways....

 

[Dunerunner]

So, how do they tax vehicles that travel through Oregon that are from out of State!! No chip to read! Does that mean the gasoline service companies will have to develop and replace pumps that add the tax when they do not detect a chip? What about this......

We go back to riding horses!!

 

[jimwsea]

So, how do they tax vehicles that travel through Oregon that are from out of State!!

I would guess that "The State of Oregon" corporation could only set a tax on the "motor vehicles" it assumes it owns, which would only be anything registered with "The State of Oregon".

 

[rufus]

Border checkpoints, complete with ATMs. Cali already checks for fruit when entering, why can't Oregon check registrations and ask for a road tax? Welcome to Oregon - gimme some money. Just swipe your VISA and be on your way. Electric cars pay double.

All kidding aside, it makes more sense than inventing a new GPS thingy debacle that is sure to fail.

 

[Redcap]

They should put a million percent tax on all that medical marijuana so all those bicycle riding dopers have to pay their fair share.

Wouldn't matter even a little. The vast majority of medical still comes from the underground market.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Wouldn't matter even a little. The vast majority of medical still comes from the underground market.

And how many cretins have a "medical marijuana card" to justify their doings/allows them to slip between the "cracks" of laws.
tax that bugger/card

 

[jbett98]

Our percentage of taxes paid in Oregon should be based on what our elected officials pay. Let's say 30% for us and 70% for the politicians.
Care to guess how fast the tax rate would drop and how more efficient the government would operate.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Here is a novel idea, why don't politicians (if they think they are so smart) get into governing within their means ie: get the spending to a level where they don't have to borrow $$$$ and raising the taxes on their constituents to the point of said constituents revolting and dragging them forcibly from their offices and hung by the short hairs!!!
Now that ladies and gentlemen would settle the populations disdain of their corrupt undoing (cause it ain't making any friends the way they are doing their jobs)!!!!

 

[Certaindeaf]

I think they use like 50% of gas taxes in Oregon for bike/pedestrian bridges/paths etc. and close/modify roads for same. Come on, it's a gas /roads use tax.

 

[1990Turbo]

You been lookin' in my yard again?

Just a guess. I had an 81 a few years ago.