Obama administration floats draft plan to tax cars by the mile

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The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive.
The plan is a part of the administration's Transportation Opportunities Act, an undated draft of which was obtained this week by Transportation Weekly.
The White House, however, said the bill is only an early draft that was not formally circulated within the administration.
“This is not an administration proposal," White House spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said. "This is not a bill supported by the administration. This was an early working draft proposal that was never formally circulated within the administration, does not taken into account the advice of the president’s senior advisers, economic team or Cabinet officials, and does not represent the views of the president.”

News of the draft follows a March Congressional Budget Office report that supported the idea of taxing drivers based on miles driven.
Among other things, CBO suggested that a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax could be tracked by installing electronic equipment on each car to determine how many miles were driven; payment could take place electronically at filling stations.
The CBO report was requested by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), who has proposed taxing cars by the mile as a way to increase federal highway revenues.
Obama's proposal seems to follow up on that idea in section 2218 of the draft bill. That section would create, within the Federal Highway Administration, a Surface Transportation Revenue Alternatives Office. It would be tasked with creating a "study framework that defines the functionality of a mileage-based user fee system and other systems."

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The administration seems to be aware of the need to prepare the public for what would likely be a controversial change to the way highway funds are collected. For example, the office is called on to serve a public-relations function, as the draft says it should "increase public awareness regarding the need for an alternative funding source for surface transportation programs and provide information on possible approaches."

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Congress Forcing Vote on AMNESTY Bill TODAY!

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Thanks to YOUR faxes, emails and phone calls this week -- Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid had to POSTPONE promised vote on the "DREAM Act" that would give AMNESTY to over TWO MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS...

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And on top of that, a coalition of amnesty-supporters has launched a "six-figure ad campaign" to get Congress to pass their AMNESTY bill NOW, before the Republicans take over in January!

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Why? Just FOLLOW THE MONEY: it's now being revealed that the Congressional Budget Office, which analyzes the costs of bills, has a report ready showing the BILLIONS of dollars this bill will cost the American taxpayer... but Democrats are covering-up their analysis showing that granting illegal aliens amnesty under the DREAM Act will cost upwards of $20 billion.

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But we DID win!

Now -- even though they LOST by HUGE margins in the recent mid-term elections -- the same left-wing crowd is pushing for amnesty AGAIN -- which means we have to FIGHT HARD AGAIN!

We all know that the far Left has been pushing for years to get full amnesty for all 20 million illegal aliens in the U.S. But now they know their time is short -- this is their LAST CHANCE to pass it before they lose their majority, and the Tea Party Republicans take over Congress.

So now their DOUBLING their efforts -- not only do they still want to get "comprehensive immigration reform" (that is, AMNESTY) passed in Congress; they're trying several NEW ways to "sneak through" amnesty -- starting by having Harry Reid bringing up the so-called "DREAM Act" as a stand-alone bill. And Nancy Pelosi is saying she'll do the SAME THING in the House -- backed by President Obama himself!

YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT -- the press is reporting that "A last-minute push for the DREAM Act comes as Republicans prepare to take control of the House and pick up seats in the Senate in the 112th Congress, which convenes in January... Both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said they would seek a vote on the measure in their respective chambers over Republican opposition."

So once again, these people will stop at NOTHING -- even the fact that THEY LOST THE ELECTION -- to get what they want. And this time, they want AMNESTY for illegals, whether the American people want it or not!

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Put simply: the DREAM Act allows children to keep what their parents STOLE for them!

Because of the STRONG opposition by American people, this bill already failed before in Congress. But that doesn't matter to these liberals; they now want to pass it before they lose their majority in January!

DO YOU GET IT? Once again, they're trying to IGNORE the wishes of the American people -- AND the law itself -- in order to give AMNESTY to millions of illegal aliens, which can open the door to granting MORE Amnesty to millions MORE illegals!

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  WASHINGTON -- Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation's homeland security chief said Friday.
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  She added, "We can significantly advance security without having a deleterious impact on individual rights in most instances. At the same time, there are situations where trade-offs are inevitable."
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  (CNSNews.com) - Middle-class Americans--not the rich or the poor--pay the majority of annual tax revenues taken in by the federal government, according to data released in a new Congressional Budget Office study. Households earning less than $34,300 per year, meanwhile, actually pay a negative average federal income tax rate.
   Middle-class households that earned between $34,300 and  $141,900 paid 50.5 percent of all federal tax revenues in 2007 (the most recent year analyzed), according to the CBO study released Thursday, and households that earned between $34,300 and $352,900 paid 66.7 percent of all federal taxes.
   Households in the top 1 percent for annual income (those earning more than $352,900) paid a healthy 28.1 percent of all federal taxes, but households in the lower income brackets paid relatively little. Those earning less than $34,300 paid only 5.2 percent of all federal taxes, and those earning less than $20,500 carried almost none of the federal tax burden (just 0.8 percent of the total) in 2007.

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Will Baby Boomers Bankrupt Social Security?

clipped from www.cnbc.com As the record federal budget deficit draws increasing scrutiny from Washington to Wall Street to Main Street, deficit hawks may take aim at entitlement programs including Social Security. Photo: Jonathan D. Colman And, the nearly 80 million Baby Boomers phasing into retirement will set in motion a dynamic that—if not addressed by Congress—could result in the next generation getting fewer benefits. By 2017, Social Security is expected to start paying out more than it collects in payroll taxes, according to the 2009 Annual Report from the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees. There is currently a large surplus, but it will be drained by the year 2037. At that point, Social Security will only be able to pay out 75 percent of its benefits. A separate report, done by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, concludes much the same thing, but gives the system another 10 years before it begins to fall apart.

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