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Ziggity 1
My King Dome for a HORSE? #hereallweek
Posted by Ziggity on January 10, 2013 at 8:15 AM
Pope Peabrain 2
Ten billion light years? Talk about fossil light!.
Posted by Pope Peabrain on January 10, 2013 at 8:28 AM
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Hey, the orcas were freed when the winds shifted. Here's an update. http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/10/… Happy Ending!
Posted by No Offense on January 10, 2013 at 8:42 AM
seattlejenny 4
Pay-as-you-go would clearly target poor people who are less likely to live near their jobs. Hope they rethink that one.
Posted by seattlejenny on January 10, 2013 at 8:48 AM
Cienna Madrid 5
@3, hurrah! I will update.
Posted by Cienna Madrid on January 10, 2013 at 8:49 AM
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The road tax problem is simple. Its working so raise the amount per gallon and continue to encourage people to drive less in more economical cars.
Posted by wl on January 10, 2013 at 9:00 AM
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Go Sacramento! Make my neighbor taste foot for painting such a huge, fugly (unfortunately, public) mural in honor of some stupid basketball team.
Posted by treehugger on January 10, 2013 at 9:09 AM
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Why not offer tai chi or qi gong as options to yoga in schools? Those also offer mental and physical health benefits.

How do Yanks manage to bloviate fear-and-insanity-driven spew online without coming across factual evidence to negate their false beliefs? Is that what they mean by the "American Dream?"
Posted by Dogma + insanity = "Freedom!" on January 10, 2013 at 9:36 AM
gttim 9
Raise the gas tax. Fuel efficient cars tend to be lighter and cause less wear and tear. Heavy vehicles use more gas and cause more wear and tear. Gas tax is reasonably fair. You could figure out a fee for electric cars to match similar fuel efficient cars, but they are really light and cause very little wear and tear. Adjust everything for construction costs- those are frequently paid by general funds, so the adjustment could be small. Mileage based fees would be regressive. Heavy SUV's should pay more than small compacts.
Posted by gttim on January 10, 2013 at 9:53 AM
Phoebe in Wallingford 10
I trust that Sean Penn sent Hugo Chavez a get-well card and some flowers.
Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford on January 10, 2013 at 9:54 AM
Phoebe in Wallingford 11
@9: So do obese people cause more ware and tear on our sidewalks than thin people?
Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford on January 10, 2013 at 10:01 AM
gttim 12
@11 Yes, but the magnitude is nowhere near the wear and tear of environmental causes, completely unlike how wear and tear occurs on roads, so your analogy fails badly. Not even a good try.
Posted by gttim on January 10, 2013 at 10:18 AM
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Poor people with cars are screwed any way you figure it--they live too far from work, they drive crappy, old, poorly maintained cars that get dreadful mileage. A gax tax screws them, a mileage tax screws them. Being screwed is part and parcel of being "poor".
Posted by tiktok on January 10, 2013 at 10:29 AM
Knat 14
Ugh. Because I support some sensible gun controls in light of the Sandy Hook Massacre, I have to also support an executive order (a maneuver I find intensely distasteful) in order to seem them enacted? Thanks, Machiavellian GOP-controlled congress.

Lots of good stuff in here this morning. Thanks, Cienna.
Posted by Knat on January 10, 2013 at 10:39 AM
dirac 15
The woman in the article (Mary Eady) relies on the opinion of Mark Driscoll.

Also, interesting that people who worship a replacement for Dionysis-Osirus are questioning gratefulness for the Sun.
Posted by dirac on January 10, 2013 at 10:47 AM
Will in Seattle 16
Mileage charges actually mean installing GPS trackers on your car.

Which part of HELL NO, PRIVACY! don't they GET?
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on January 10, 2013 at 11:06 AM
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A mileage tax, colected either through gps monitoring or annual milage checks is a lot more expensive to collect as well as not incentivising smaller cars. BTW charitarizing all poor people as driving giant gas guzzeling hoopties is false and probably somewhat racist. I know lots of poor people who drive sub-compacts.
Posted by wl on January 10, 2013 at 11:24 AM
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@17,

Where did anyone imply that poor people drive large cars? If anything, they were implying that poor people drive old cars that typically get worse gas mileage than newer cars of comparable size. Is that not true?
Posted by keshmeshi on January 10, 2013 at 11:35 AM
Rotten666 19
@17 OK, wrong assumption perhaps. But racist? No.

Unless you presume that all poor people are black. Which is what you seem to be doing.

What's up, racist guy.
Posted by Rotten666 on January 10, 2013 at 11:42 AM
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@16: I think the odometer will cover the mileage measurements. Want a refund for out-of-state driving? Submit your GPS records.
Posted by tiktok on January 10, 2013 at 12:01 PM
Dougsf 21
What could me a more straight-forward pay-as-you-go system than the gas tax already in place? A gas tax accounts for vehicle weight, efficiency, and frequency of use (and therefore miles driven). The idea the tax is a "fixed price" is idiotic, given the reasons one burns gas.
Posted by Dougsf on January 10, 2013 at 12:20 PM
sloegin 22
Peg the gas tax to the cost of a gallon instead of a fixed rate per volume. Rise in gas costs (somewhat) covers loss of sales. Plus you don't have to revisit the tax every few years.
Posted by sloegin on January 10, 2013 at 1:18 PM

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