Nashville Post follow-up story clarifying both Tennessean reports were wrong. Looks like the boys on Broadway are just trying to sell more papers……

Having said that, gas taxes don’t nearly cover the cost of providing transportation by the government.

They campaign for better fuel mileage on all vehicles and now they are seeing that people are going farther on fewer gallons. They consider that money lost. You see they don’t think any money is ours. They think it is all theirs and we only get to hold it for awhile.

If you think this is nuts, look at cigarettes. These bastards ban smoking everydamnwhere, (no, I don’t smoke) then raise taxes precipitously because fewer people are smoking and smoking people are smoking less for want of a place to do so until they get back home and some places are trying to outlaw it there if there are children in the home.

Just think how much it is going to cost us all not to smoke when everybody quits or the American tobacco producers take my advice and sell no product in the U.S. In the first case, we will be taxed for fresh air. Think I’m kidding, Minneapolis, Mn. has already tried to pass a breathing tax.

In the second case, if you want to see the National Guard take over private corporations and force former employees to continue production in the newly nationalized factories, pay attention if American tobacco manufacturers should decide to discontinue domestic sales. Not likely, but they should. That would do more to expose the true agenda of our nannies than almost any other thing that could be done. They are not going to give up that tax money voluntarily.

Better gas mileage in newer cars are exactly why these fools are pushing this crap.

Yea, it wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact they could then gps track all their citizen^H^H^H^H^H subjects now would it?

…..under an idea being floated by some state legislators.

Excuse me if I screwed it up, I only skimmed because I don’t live in TN, but did the Tennessean name those state level legislative-critters that were even considering it so we could start the hatin’, or is this just a scheme to “run it up the flagpole” and perhaps see if anyone shoots at it?

They will continue until one of them loses his seat over it.

“Gas tax revenues are static, and they don’t necessarily increase with the transportation needs that have to be met,” said Sen. Mark Norris

This bonehead comment deserves a kick in the nuts regardless of any later clarifications. The revenues aren’t static, period. The revenues track with consumption, meaning the more gas that’s sold, the more revenue is generated. Put simply, in deference to any Congress critters reading this, the more miles people travel, the more gas they buy, and the more tax they pay. Taxing by the gallon produces exactly the same revenue stream as taxing by miles traveled.

Did you follow that Sen Norris, or should I simplify it more for you and your idiot colleagues?

The only thing “static” about the tax is the amount per gallon sold, and there’s no sane reason why that should fluctuate.

Of course, sanity is not something I’ve come to expect from legislators.

Close enough to get your gas in KY, MS, AL, GA, etc

Mr. Norris, I propose instead we place a transmitter on legislators to measure how much time their head spends up their ass.

I don’t think they could afford it, even at their inflated wages…

The next logical step is premium roads and peak hours that will make this scheme more complicated than your cell phone bill.

If you want to raise taxes, raise taxes, but don’t invent a whole new and additional tax scheme that will require a new bureaucracy to enforce, and absurd capital costs for all gas stations and vehicles on the road.

No, I think kicking the women legislators in the shins just isn’t painful enough.
Not sure what is, but that certainly is not

This is the single dumbest idea ever brought forth in the State of Tennessee. If our representatives would understand the “their” spending is the problem maybe we could make Tennessee a better place to live.

But then won’t the eco-freaks be paying the same in taxes in their tiny death-trap hybrids as the guy in the gas-chugging Gargantu-SUV?

It’s gotta be a kick in the crotch for this one, male or otherwise.