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I was doing my daily blog browsing and I saw that fellow blogger Vincent from InsignificantThoughts.com had a very interesting entry, that caught me by surprise.

Apparently North Carolina is considering adding a “road-use tax.” I mean, I hate to respond like a third grader but, “come on.. SERIOUSLY!? Really!?” This is honestly absolute ludicris. I thought the tolls were the usage taxes, I guess the state will do anything to get a quick buck from their cits. How it work, is every year the state government would measure your odometer (I’m guessing having the Motor Vehicle Inspection Authorities report the data) and they calculate the difference from the year previous… or even have GPS technologies measure usage (have premium rates downtown areas,  perhaps?) This is absolutely ridiculous.

Like Vincent quoted, states already tax for just about everything,

Isn’t this another multiple-multiple tax? They have a sales tax on the purchase of the vehicle, they tax the gasoline, they tax the tires, they tax the upkeep-repairs-service of your vehicle, they have a licensing-registration tax, they have an emissions check tax, they have a vehicle property tax, and now they want to tax the usage. Oh yeah, don’t forget about toll roads too.

What’s next? Oh, I know! Taxing us based on the amount of oxygen we breathe, because it’s consuming resources from plants that the state owns and maintains! Everyone would have to get mandatory surgery to get breathometers installed in their lungs. Give me a break.

While we are on the topic of taxes, Vincent had another interesting post. The governor of New York is trying/proposing/politicking to have tax hikes on a lot of things. Do you take the taxi to get places (It’s New York, after all!)? Well, if he gets his way, it’ll be about 4% more you’d have to pay in addition to your fare. iTunes/media downloads? 4%! Oh, non diet soft drinks? A whopping 18%.

Check out (and subscribe!) to Vincent’s blog, to check out the picture of the newspaper frontpage.

Let me note that not only is taxing like this extremely lame, they could not have picked a worse time. Everyone these days is living paycheck-to-paycheck, and the government wants to continue to sap even more money out of our precious wallets? What is this?